David D. Horowitz recently captured first-place honors and the $100 prize at the Auburn Good Ol’ Days Poets on Parade contest in front of a live audience in the historic Auburn Avenue Theater.

Horowitz won with a collage of five short poems like this one:

Loss

Though I’m a Cubbies fan I will not castigate and blame.

Five soldiers lost their lives today. The Cubs just lost a game.

Horowitz, editor and publisher of Rose Alley Press, is a longtime supporter of poetry in the Puget Sound.

David Rizzie took the second-place prize of $50 for his poem, “The Man on the Mountain.” Rizzie, a member of Auburn’s Striped Water Poets and the author of Vibrant City of Bones, won the Lohmann prize for poetry earlier this year.

Eileen Fix was third, winning $25 for two poems – “Red Felted Wool (Hat)” and “Snuggle With You.” In many of Fix’s poems, she shares her experience of dealing with multiple sclerosis.