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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 [...]

Watch © 2009 Suzanne Grenoble My girl asks Mommy what’s the time? and I say Time to sled into a snowpile, play Make believe or cookie cop or End the day leisurely bathing with Unimaginable legions of friends What time is it Mommy when the Big Hand touches twelve? Time to stand up tall, to [...]

Lemon © 2009 Suzanne Grenoble Sea surge sluicing Salt Citrus Over the tongue Pale seeds Like transparent pebbles, Slipslide longways, Settling in sea algae– Cool dark underworld green down. Upsideways, Yellow-bright sun pinwheels on high, Over our celadon haven for nests.

Core © 2009 Suzanne Grenoble Apple Below scarlet skin, White flesh within, Black bugs in snow, Buried cold, slow Apple seeds Sift in and out of sleep. Secrets unravel in the sand of dreams So she must listen, All the way to the center of things, Here is where the silence rings, The hollow shell [...]