… all wrote very sincerely about their experiences, hopes and losses … They demonstrated ably what could be the three most significant aspects of human love: celebration, yearning and loss. In the process, they show how poetry can be one of the most appropriate vehicles for love. Is that not why importunings of love, paens of joy and, of course, elegies all call to be written as poems? And so, we have in this Poetry d’Amour anthology an outpouring of hopes, sadness and thanks for love received….
Glen Phillips
2023 Contest Judge
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