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Welcome to the InterBoard Poetry Community. We provide assistance, incentive, and an environment conducive to improving the quality and popularity of Internet poetry. See our “About” section for a detailed description of who we are and how we came to be, as well as where we’re headed.

Current Judge: Doris Ferleger

Doris Ferleger

Doris Ferleger, former poet laureate of Montgomery County PA and award-winning poet and memoir essayist, is the author of four full length volumes of poetry including Big Silences in a Year of Rain (finalist for the Alice James Books/Beatrice Hawley Award), As the Moon Has Breath, Leavened, and As for the Kiss (finalist for the Cod Hill, Marsh Hawk and Word Works contests), as well as a chapbook entitled When You Become Snow.  been published in numerous journals including Cimarron Review, Delmarva Review, L.A. Review, Poet Lore, The Virginia Normal, and South Carolina Review. She holds an MFA in Poetry and a PhD in Psychology and maintains a telehealth mindfulness/compassion based psychotherapy practice.

• August 2022 Winners

  • First Place

    Sodom by the Sea
    by Ken Ashworth
    The Writer's Block
    

    Second Place

    Good Omens
    by Christine Potter
    The Waters
    

    Third Place

    Isaac and the Apple
    by Rus Bowden
    Babilu
    
• • Read the August Winners
  • Meet the Judge: Doris Ferleger



• July 2022 Winners

  • First Place

    striking a match in an empty house
    by Billy Howell-Sinnard
    The Waters
    

    Second Place

    My Soul to Keep
    by Jim Doss
    Babilu
    

    Third Place

    Li Po Adrift
    by Bob Bradshaw
    The Writer's Block
    
• • Read the July Winners
  • Previous Judge: R.T. Castleberry