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DECEMBER 2008 CONTEST RESULTS (Theme: "In Memoriam")

1st Place, Short Form: CAROL RAISFELD
1st Place, Long Form: LINDA PAPANICOLAUO

CONGRATULATIONS!

The theme for the January, 2009 Contest will be announced soon.

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CinquainPoets has a "sister group", which was formed to write long collaborative cinquain sequences.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CinquainPoetSequences

"May Dazed", the long collaborative cinquain sequence written on this list during May 2005, is now available as a book from lulu.com:

http://www.lulu.com/cinquainpoets

Cinquains of any topic as well as discussion of cinquain-centered topics are always welcome on the list.

The CinquainPoets e-mail group is for poets who write cinquains in the form as defined by Adelaide Crapsey, a five line poem with a syllable pattern of 2-4-6-8-2.

The CinquainPoets also discuss and share cinquain variations such as mirror cinquains (2 stanzas of 5 lines with a 2-4-6-8-2 2-8-6-4-2 pattern), cinquain sequences (longer poems with cinquain stanzas), crown cinquains (a cinquain sequence of 5 stanzas), reverse cinquains (2-8-6-4-2 pattern), and cinquain butterflies (a mirror cinquain that has been fused together into one stanza, dropping one of the 2 syllable middle lines - i.e. 9 lines with a