2017 CONTEST WINNER

ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE KENT STATE SHOOTINGS

Poetry by Mimi Plevin- Foust

For Allison Krause, Jeffrey Miller, Sandy Scheuer       
          & William Schroeder
 
It’s May, and the tulips
stand up in their beds.
The bleeding hearts cascade
in lovely trills off soft green stems.
The magnolia stretches out
gnarled branches that explode
with pink and white cups of perfume.
 
And, everywhere, forget-me-nots
raise thousands of tiny blue hats
to remind us that— it’s May.  It’s May.

Mimi Plevin-Foust

Over her career, Mimi Plevin-Foust has been a poet, glass artist, screenwriter and filmmaker with an MFA in Dramatic Writing from New York University. She writes poems to try to figure out the messy, lovely wackiness of life and to tell individual stories of courage and grace. Her poetry, screenplays and articles have been published by Fourteen Hills, LearnVest/Forbes.com, POZ Magazine, Sanskrit Literary-Arts Magazine, SCRIPT, Spoon River Poetry Review and more. After living in NYC/NJ for many years, Mimi moved back to her home town of Cleveland where she shares a 103-year-old home near Shaker Square with assorted Airbnb guests as well as her husband, daughter, and cats.