2017 Reuben Rose Competition

Winners, and texts of poems

The judges for the 28th Competition, held in 2017, were:

• Rick Lupert, USA — this year’s International Judge
• Ricky Friesem, Israel — last year’s First Prize winner
• Joyce Schmid, USA — last year’s Second Prize winner:

First prize – Marc Radzyner, Israel: girl in the white t-shirt
Second prize – Judy Belsky, Israel: Anne Frank
Third prize – Dina Yehuda, israel: The Artist’s Bedroom

Honorable mentions (in alphabetical order of poet’s surname):

Elizabeth Claverie – The way your mouth holds my name
Iris Dan – The Geometry Homework
CB Follett – My Father
Evie Groch – Curtains
Roy Bernard Mann – Poem for the Mediterranean
Joan Michelson – Apron
Rumi Morkin (pseudonym of Miriam Webber) – Privacy
Diane Ray – Yeats and the Likes of Me
Marjorie Stamm Rosenfeld – High Rise
David Silverman – Work of Heart

To read and download the texts of the three winning poems and the ten that gained Honourable Mention click here (PDF file).