Some say that late is better than never, so congratulations to Ed in being one of the winners in the annual Triton College Poetry Contest. Each spring Triton College in River Grove, Illinois sponsors a poetry contest in which three topics for poems are announced. The best poems on each topic are picked as winners and appear the next year in Ariel , the literary magazine that the college puts out. Ed entered his poems in March and found out at the beginning of May that one of his poems, “A Portent of Passing” was chosen. Here are the first few lines from the poem:
Standing in the doorway
My mother's body is thin
Frail as rice paper
Weakened by pneumonia
And eighty years of hardship
She survives her pilgrimage on faith
The entire poem will appear in Ariel XXIII which will appear in spring of 2006.
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