PSOV Members have voted and the results are in! Below are the winning poems from the Poetry Society of Vermont’s 2025 Fall Poetry Contest. Thank you to all the members who took the time to read the 46 submitted contest poems and vote for your top ten poems which will be published in the 2026 Mountain Troubadour.
| Top Ten Poems | Poets |
|---|---|
| Ant Trails | Christopher Record |
| Letter to a Brother in Ladakh | Amelia DiGiano |
| Bitten | Robin Dellabough |
| Mother’s Grape Jelly | Elizabeth R. McCarthy |
| The Radical Nature of Sneakers | Carol Milkuhn |
| Dandelions in the Suburbs | Philip Coleman |
| JESUS HAS YOUR ANSWERS* | George Longenecker |
| Resistance, with Eggs* | Carla Schwartz |
| Falling in Love Again At Fifty* | Michelle Fay Holder |
| Sunrise, Late Fall 1956** | Nichael Cramer |
| King’s Progress** | Gordon Korstange |
| * tied for 7th ** tied for 10th |
Members’ Choice Voting: Spring/Fall Poetry Contest winners are selected through members’ choice voting. A Google Form and a link to a document containing all submitted poems (names removed) is sent to all members, where they have the opportunity to read all submitted poems then vote for their top ten. The top ten ranked choice poems will be included in next year’s publication of The Mountain Troubadour. The members’ choice vote uses the Borda Count Method to calculate the choice ranking.