DearMembers of the AmeriCymru community,

I wish to express my sincere gratitude for the honor of being this year's winner of the English language poetry competition, with my poem titled "Remembering Fengdu." My thanks go to Peter Thabit Jones for his adjudication, and to Ceri Shaw and Gaabriel Becket for making this Eisteddfod possible.

I also would like to acknowledge Julian Goodwin, a Brooklyn, NY-based composer who set an earlier version of "Remembering Fengdu" to music. His excellent interpretation gave that earlier poem a new life of its own as an art song, and inspired me to revise the text. That revised version is what I submitted to the West Coast Eisteddfod this year.

My congratulations also go to runner-up Maude Larke for her poem, "An Anatomy," and to Dianne E Selden, Cynthia Baculi-Condez, Meilani Rita, Gillian Morgan, and Peter Lewis for their poems' adjudication of"highly commended."

Best wishes always!

Nancy Wright