2016 Poetry Contest Issue cover

Poetry | Soft cover | 90 Pages | $10

Passager Poet Maryhelen Snyder
and 32 Honorable Mentions

I read a single sentence from Kierkegaard that gave me great joy. He writes that deep down in the secret heart of happiness, lives anxiety, which is also despair. And they need to be left there. They need to live exactly there. I think that idea touched me because I tend to want to resist my despair.

Maryhelen Snyder

Honorable Mentions

Virginia Anderson
Pat Anthony
Larsen Bowker
Michael Crowley
Lynn Wood Dizard
Jerome Gagnon
Patrick Hansel
Ruth Moon Kempher
Lynne Knight
Danuta Kosk-Kosicka
Peggy Hapke Lewis
Susan Lilley
Leon Lowder
Katharyn Howd Machan
Catherine McGuire
Sarah Merrow

Henry Morgenthau III
Michael Murphy
Bonnie Naradzay
Susan Okie
Sherman Pearl
Joyce Ritchie
Michael Schneider
Kathy Shorr
Rosanne Singer
Charles Springer
Pru Starr
Martha Strom
Marc Swan
Claudia Van Gerven
Tori Grant Welhouse
Sarah Yerkes


Mary Azrael, Kendra Kopelke, editors. Christine Drawl, designer. Pantea Amin Tofangchi, cover art and design.