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The Chester Sipple Poetry Award
The award acknowledges student achievement in creating a larger body of poetry. Students submit to this competition portfolios of five original poems. The winning entrant receives a $500 award, the runner-up earns $200, and third place garners $100. In addition, the English Department presents certificates to student poets whose work earns finalist honors.
~Some poems may contain explicit language~
2009 Winners
1st Place: William Ankrum
"In the Desert Next to the Reservation"
"Model of Intentionality: Possibilities-of-Being"
"Waiting Room, ER, Discharge Papers, Released, and Signed"
2nd Place: Chelsea Pfiester
3rd Place: Amber Schultz
"watching fox news with my parents"
2008 Winner - Joseph Huether
"Inventory" AUDIO
"Thinking of an Ancient Chinese Master: I Offer Three Poems in His Memory" AUDIO
"Winter Poem" AUDIO
2008 Co-Runner Ups
Sarah Duncan
"To History" AUDIO
"Look What I Made" AUDIO
"Mourning Has Broken" AUDIO
Carolyn Dorant
"Castle on the Pacific" AUDIO
"Understanding Bobby Fischer" AUDIO
"Our House is by a River" AUDIO
2007 Winners
1st Place: Bailey Shaw
2nd Place: Danielle Jackson
3rd Place; Janeil Davis
Finalists: Jeff Adkins-Dutro, Amy Lynn Eggert, Lisa Huberman, Douglas Luman
2006 Winners
1st Place: Mark Liebenow - Selected Poems
2nd Place: Megan Hodge
3rd Place: Tara Mettler
Finalists: Tyler Clark, Emily Cooper, Andrew Galligan, Lisa Huberman, Jessica Marschke
2005 Winners
1st Place: Lindsey Ronfeldt - Selected Poems
2nd Place: Fallon Allison
3rd Place: Staci Perkins & Mark Liebenow
Finalists: Andrew Galligan, Tara Mettler, Shannon Moore, David VonBehren