English Department Poetry Contest
2022 This is Poetry ENGLISH DEPARTMENT POETRY CONTEST
Theme: Love and War
Winners
1st Place: "roots" by Miles Enriquez-Morales
2nd Place: "To the Rotten Backseat Pumpkins" by Ash Arias
3rd Place: "Illusion Died" by Michelle Godoy
HM: "Another World" by Luis Garza
2021 This is Poetry ENGLISH DEPARTMENT POETRY CONTEST
Theme: The Last Year
(Photo by Edwin Hooper)
Winners
1st Place: "The Afterlife Is Just Reliving Your Childhood" by Jessi Jarrin
2nd Place: "Upon Checking the News on a Friday" by Willie Robert Heredia
3rd Place: "The World Tastes Our Blood (In Tribute to Mahmoud Darwish)" by Adelia Gregory
Honorable Mention: "Chica Esperanza" by Ivan Hernandez
2019 This is Poetry ENGLISH DEPARTMENT POETRY CONTEST
Theme: Identity
Winners
1st Place: “P-problem in the Meadow” by Daniel Orona
2nd Place: Untitled by Marilyn Ramirez
3rd Place: “A Friend at the End of the World” by Leiza Castillo
Honorable Mention: “Dissociative” by James Shawe
2018 This is Poetry ENGLISH DEPARTMENT POETRY CONTEST
Theme: Boundaries
Winners
1st Place: "My, What Voice You Have" by Jessi Jarrin
2nd Place: "Is It Stockholm Syndrome?" by Meztli Morales
3rd Place: Untitled by Laura Rosen
Honorable Mention: "Lady of Belen" by Maria De Jesus Antunez
2017 This is Poetry ENGLISH DEPARTMENT POETRY CONTEST
Theme: Oppression
"Poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence."
--Audre Lorde
WINNERS
1st Place:“Offering” by Suzan Ramirez
2nd Place: “Pumpkin Pie” by Jessi Jarrin
3rd Place: “Beautiful Girl” by Jordan Warren
Honorable Mention: "Agoraphobia" by Eric Greilach
2016 This is Poetry ENGLISH DEPARTMENT POETRY CONTEST
Theme: Food
“If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.”
--Emily Dickinson
Winners
1st Place: "The First Bite" by Jessi Jarrin
2nd Place: "El Posole de Abuela" by Karla Enriquez
3rd Place: "The Ice Cream Man" by Kimberly Salazar
Honorable Mention: "What Rhymes with Banana?" by Tahshae Catching
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