Moneta Goldsmith was the 2013 Grand Prize winner of Spark Anthology’s national poetry contest. He is the recent co-founder of the literary journal 'When in Drought' & its accompanying reading series in Los Angeles. His own prose & poetry has been featured in such places as Sparkle & Blink, Iron Horse Review, & Best New Writing 2014. 

To this impressive list of laurels Moneta can now add Third Place and two Honorable Mentions in our own humble Eye On Life Poetry Contest.  We are honored to include his work here. 

Moneta cites my good taste in the selection of his work but I can take no credit.  I bow to my hardworking poetry contest judges who made this contest possible. 

Third Place Winning Poem: 

• Hyena vs. Wildebeest

Selected by the judges for Honorable Mention: 

• Literatorture: Upon Leaving a Station at the Metro

• Cerberus Smiling

Other works by Moneta Goldsmith: 

• Li Po Gets Drunk & Jumps in the River

• A Fairly Public Vow to Be More Monastic