2021 Reuben Rose Competition

Winners, recordings and texts of poems

The judges for the 32nd Competition, held in 2021, were:

• Ricky Rapoport Friesem – last year’s First Prize winner.
• Jane Seitel – last year’s Second Prize winner.
• David Caplan – this year’s Overseas Judge. 

First prize:  Yiskah Rosenfeld, USA: The Morning After a Vipassana Retreat. Use the audio bar below to hear a recording of Yiskah reading her poem.

Second prize: Amy Small-McKinney, USA: Small Stone.  Use the audio bar below to hear a recording of Amy reading her poem.

Third prize: Elizabeth Edelglass, USA: No Mention.   Use the audio bar below to hear a recording of Elizabeth reading her poem.

Honourable Mentions (in alphabetical order of poem title):

A Gentle Villanelle – by Judy Koren, Israel
A Poem for My Father – by Judith R. Robinson, USA
Arabic 1973 – by Robert Dashevsky, USA
Bookmark – by Rivka Nomberg, USA
Rachav – by Dina Yehuda, Israel
Red Bead – by Reuven Goldfarb, Israel
The Bipolar Stingray – by Ian Rodney Pettit, Australia
The Kibbutz – by Michael Greenberg, Israel
The Return – by Avraham Schonbrunn, Israel
Things It Sucks to Hear – by Celia Merlin, Israel

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