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Next in our series of Torontoist Poetry Contest poems of Honourable Mention is “In Transit” by Peter O’Donovan. Other poems that received Honourable Mention are “Velocity,” by Jenny Sampirisi and Matthew Tierney's "The Man who Knew from Cool"; Prathna Lor’s “((de)fragmentation.)” is coming soon. Our winning poem was "Eaton's Effluviad" by Gregory Betts.

Torontoist’s Poetry Contest winners were announced last month, and thus far we’ve presented Matthew Tierney's "The Man who Knew from Cool" (Honourable Mention) and the winning poem, "Eaton's Effluviad," by Gregory Betts. We’d like to introduce you to another local poet, Jenny Sampirisi, whose poem, “Velocity,” also received an Honourable Mention.

One week and one-hundred-and-sixty-seven entries later, our Justin Timberlake contest has mercifully ended. Congratulations to our winners, Michelle Hollywell and Sonya Barnett! They'll each get a pair of tickets to Timberlake's August 20 concert at the ACC.

In addition to providing a name and e-mail address, we asked submitters to rename Timberlake's "Dick in a Box" SNL skit to any combination of Body Part (in a) Noun. While we got a lot of great entries to our challenge (most, unsurprisingly, involving genitals), some stood out above others. Here are our favourite submissions. Non sequiturs and offensiveness clearly win us over easily, and to these entrants we extend an honourable mention—and to our readers we extend our apologies in advance for any offense taken.

How is National Poetry Month treating you? On the second week of celebration, Torontoist is beginning to buckle a little under the strain of too much fun, but it warms our hearts to witness the large number of bookish events offered this April. We are happy to announce the winners of our poetry contest as part of the nationwide festivities.

This sounds good; if it isn’t, it will at least be fascinating and you can say you were there. Tonight at The Trane Studio, poets Rachel Zolf, Gerry Shikatani, a.rawlings, Jordan Scott, Jenny Sampirisi, Sonnet L’Abbe, and Margaret Christakos will move “onto the raft of music” with musician Tim Posgate and riff off each other's poetries. They call it R))I))F))F))) R))A))F))T))).