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2024 Poetry Contest
An Open Door

Thanks to over sixty LCJ readers who sent in poems to our 2024 Lake Country Journal Poetry Contest. We were delighted with the positive response and with the high quality of the entries. It confirmed what we already knew: Lake Country folk know the beauty, power, and joy of words.

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Thanks also to our co-sponsors: Central Lakes College’s visiting poets’ program, Verse Like Water, and the Crossing Arts Alliance. And a shout-out to our three judges: Charmaine Donovan, Donna Salli, and Jeffrey L. Johnson.

This activity is made possible, in part, by the voters of Minnesota, through a grant from the Five Wings Arts Council, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.

Listen to a reading of entrant, Karen de Boer's poem Goodbye to the Old Vending Machine. Read by Tracey Finck.

In collaboration with 

The 2024 Poetry Contest Winners

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