The 2010 Origami Crane Contest, best poem at Tree‘s open mic, as chosen by this year’s judge Monty Reid and presented by Rod Pederson. It is the poem folded into a crane, in this case on bamboo paper and attached to the award.
Monty Reid’s short list includes:
Mary Lee Bragg, for “Take a Picture, It’ll Last Longer”
Terry Ann Carter, for “Haiku from Cambodia”
Grant Savage, for from “Lips Poured – #3”
Dee Hobsbawn-Smith, for “Pottery in the Cypress Hills”
Claudia Coutu Radmore, for “afternoon moon pie”
Terry Ann Carter won the 2010 Origami Crane Open Mic contest.
There was an award for best performance at Tree. The panel was unanimous that it was Paul Macken won for best presentation at Tree in the year for his Dead Poet presentation on Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
Beyond the presentations there was an all open mic. I think everyone in the room read save a couple people.
Sue Bowness giving the last reading of the year from her The Days You’ve Spent
Colin Morton reading from Pith & Wry at the Xmas Tree Open Mic. He was also the fastest for most of the poetry trivia question door prizes.
Cameron Anstee, last year’s winner of the Origami Crane, reading a new poem, deft as his usual.
Margaret Malloch Zielinski was doing a comic retort in form to Marlowe’s The Passionate Shepherd to his Love, assisted by Paul Mackan. Marlowe wasn’t taken up on his offer and how.
And Janet, Baird, Richard, myself, and several more that I didn’t get good pictures of read as well.
Claudia Coutu Radmore reading out the trivia questions for the door prizes. Which reader to Tree wrote translations of Paul Celan? Which late American poet used phrenology? Who won the governor general award for poetry this year? Who wrote Noble Gas, Penny Black? Which Canadian poet wrote a poem about sexual carrots? Each right answer won a book from the surprise bag. (I suggested best plausible should take it but ah well.)
Tree returns for a new season January 11th. Same time, same place. Arts Court, 2nd Floor. 6:45-7:45 I’ll lead a workshop on editing a poem down. 8:00 the feature reader.