In my inbox arrived this note:

Congratulations! Your poems were chosen as winners of the 2008 Jeanne Lohmann Poetry Prize sponsored by the Olympia Poetry Network:

"Otaka the Cat" by Sean Brendan-Brown (Olympia)
"Footprint" by Shin Yu Pai (Seattle)
"emergence" by David Rizzi (Seattle)

Having had a sluggish start to getting involved in the Washington poetry scene, I now feel officially welcomed into the fold. Thank you, Olympia!