A message from: Frank Calo

I would like to thank all the poets that submitted work to this contest. It has been a very hard choice. The short poems were fantastic and to the point. The longer poems wove stories. In the end I had to go with one of the longer poems. "Untitled" tells the story of a family of smokers: a mother, father and daughter whose vice of choice was tobacco, all starting in their teens and foregoing harder drugs and spirits for a lifetime of nicotine addiction. In the end, it is a tale of choices and roads not taken.