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Story Institute, your online and in-print source for imagining, enhancing, and growing stories, is proud to announce the winners of its Spring, 2009 United States poetry contest. All first and second place winners will be featured in upcoming Story Institute RamblingVerser podcasts and newsletters. Along with the winning poems, entries from selected poets will appear [...]

Cole Ridge Poem © 2008 – Joy Sheppard Blythe gale, Peasants to hail, Why canst thou fling free? Soar over the churning sea in wild ecstasy? Must you always salt my soars? Bitter struggle tasted by scores Inflicted by you, the curses rebound Upon the shipwrecked Sound Enslaving master and taskman alike Oh, wild spirit, [...]