Just announced! Winners of the 2010 MOVING WORDS Poetry Competition were selected from nearly 300 poems submitted by DC area writers. The competition judges were poets Naomi Ayala, Paulette Beete, and Lane Jennings. The six winning poems below will be displayed on Metro buses from April through September 2010. Click here to read the poems.

The 2010 winners are:

Tony Mancus, Excerpt from A Vessel Interior
Judith McCombs, Clearings
David Moss, Geology of Our Bed
Ann Rayburn, Diner
Elizabeth Rees, It Used to Be Called Tenderness
Marcela Sulak, Coffee


The 2010 finalists are:

Ann Rayburn, At the Bridge
Elizabeth Rees, Upon Delivery
Jacqueline Jules, Frog vs Toad
Michael Tims, To a Jewel
Karen Joan Topping, i95
Kati Nolfi, Cul-de-sac
Roberta Beary, On the F Train

Please join us at the IOTA Club & Café on Sunday, April 11 at 8:15 PM to hear the six winning poets read from their work! Moving Words will be featured at IOTA’s new “Second Sundays Poetry and Art Hang.” The event brings together some of the most established and prolific Metro Area poets and students, professors and poetry fans. Second Sundays is a natural outgrowth of the long-standing IOTA Poetry Series, adding a third hour of reading with the Articles Press Hour. The corresponding Art Hang adds visual art to the event and encourages discussion and mingling after the readings. IOTA Club & Cafe is a live music venue, restaurant and bar located two and a half blocks east of the Clarendon Metro Station in Arlington, Virginia.