LDS.net is proud to announce the finalists in their first ever poetry contest! Take a moment to vote for your favorite, here in randomized order:
If I Had a Book of Mormon Broadway Show
by Theric Jepson
crickets and gulls
by Brook Andreoli
Lot’s Wife
by Lorraine Jeffery
Holy Spirit
by Michaela Stephens
Annunciation at Pajaro Dunes
by Robbie Taggart
Testimony
by Miles Bryson
One Ev’ning a Trav’ler
by Jeanelle Averett
I Was There At the Temple
by H.T. Lawrence
Simplicity, Simplicity
by Michael Scott Jensen
Touch These Stones
by Alex Barlow
Waiting for Canaan
by Bobby Aldridge
Light and Truth
by Heather DeSomer
Typhoon Hits the Phillippines
by Mary and Harrison Strong
Blind Man
by Davey Morrison Dillard
By This Shallmenknow
by S.P. Bailey
How Will the Winner Be Chosen?
The public can vote for as many poems as they like one time each. Two judges Michael Tatum, 2011 Idaho Senior Poet Laureate, and Tyler Chadwick, author and editor of Fire in the Pasture: 21st Century Mormon Poets, will choose their three favorite poems.
The poem that receives the most popular votes will receive 5 points, the poem that receives the second most popular votes will receive 3 points, and the poem that receives the third most popular votes will receive one point. Each of the judges’ three favorite poems will receive points in the same way. The poem with the most points will be the winner. Any tie will be broken by the popular vote.
