Poems by Marilynn Deane Mendell
​​​Virginia Writers Project, publisher Ray Griffin, Jr.
Poem: Loretta the Ineluctable
Winter 2025
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Virginia Writers Project, publisher Ray Griffin, Jr.
Poem: Eunoia
Winter 2025
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Virginia Writers Project, publisher Ray Griffin, Jr.
Poem: The Keeper
Winter 2025
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The Avocet, A Journal of Nature Poetry, publisher Charles Portolano
Fall 2025
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The Avocet, A Journal of Nature Poetry, publisher Charles Portolano
September 2025
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The Botanical Garden of the Piedmont
Fall 2025
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Riverside Writers Club
Poem: Metaphorical Transformation
August 2025
Recognized by the Virginia Writers Club, Golden Nib, Tier One Prize in Poetry, 1st Place, August 2025
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Riverside Writers Club
Short Story: I Did Everything
August 2025
Recognized by the Virginia Writers Club, Golden Nib, Tier One Prize in Fiction, 1st Place, August 2025
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Virginia Writers Project, publisher Ray Griffin, Jr.
Summer 2025
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The Avocet, A Journal of Nature Poetry, publisher Charles Portolano
Summer 2025​​​​
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​The Avocet, A Journal of Nature Poetry, publisher Charles Portolano
April 2025, page 5
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The Avocet, A Journal of Nature Poetry, publisher Charles Portolano
Spring 2025, page 39
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"Your poem was a foundational poem in this issue. I need a few poems as powerful as yours in each issue to keep in the reader's minds what is really happening before
our eyes."
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Charles Portolano, editor
The Avocet - Fall 2025
Drunken Bees and passion vine, as mentioned in
poem Loretta the Ineluctable
