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2008 Student Poetry Competitions & Awards

2008 Academy of American Poets Prize

Co-Winners:

Jene Mitchell - "It Ain't Different"

Douglas Luman - "A Poem For My Father's Memories"

James Shadid - "Just a Friend"

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2008 The Chester Sipple Poetry Award Winners

(A sampling of the students' winning poems appears below.)

Winner

Joseph Huether

"Inventory"

"Thinking of an Ancient Chinese Master: I Offer Three Poems in His Memory"

"Winter Poem"


Co-Runner Ups

Sarah Duncan

"To History"

"Look What I Made"

"Mourning Has Broken"

Carolyn Dorant

"Castle on the Pacific"

"Understanding Bobby Fischer"

"Our House is by a River"