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First Place ($200 Prize)
“The Color True”
Advika Asthana, 10th grade,
Davidson High School, Ohio
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Second Place
“Refrigerator Bird” “What She Wanted”
Armaan Fatteh-Patil, 12th grade,
American Heritage School, Florida
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The following Third and Fourth Place winners and Honorable Mentions have been published here.
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Third Place
“On Rage”
Jiajun Justinian Xiao, 10th grade,
Keystone Academy Beijing
“The Passion of the Nightingale”
Minkyu (Michael) Koo, 11th grade,
Chadwick International School, Korea
“The Self-Effacer”
Dante de Jong, 12th grade,
Belmont High School
Fourth Place
“Aboard My Boat”
Silvia Ursino, 9th grade,
Bainbridge High School
“Aubade”
Yan Zhang, 12th grade
Hangzhou Foreign Languages School, Zhejiang, China
“Fire of Satan”
by Joonsoo Yoon, 11th grade,
Rick Reedy High School
“When Love for Dance Fades”
Elizabeth Visvikis, 11th grade,
Morristown Beard High School
“Lullaby at Shore”
Ilbeom Yu, 12th grade,
Chadwick International School, Korea
Honorable Mentions
“Nothing”
Kalliope Luna Welch, 9th grade,
Welch Homeschool
“The Island”
Saurabh Bhatt, 9th grade,
Greenwich High School
“The Empty Flame”
Charlotte Wenneker, 11th grade,
Crossroads School
Untitled
by Claire Pinheiro, 9th grade,
Greenwich High School
“Cost of Passage”
Daniel Zhu, 8th grade,
Day Creek Intermediate School, California
“Empty Playground”
Dayeon Kim, 10th grade,
Chadwick International School, Korea
“Earth’s Song”
by Olivia Kim, 11th grade
Bergen County Academies
“The Kitsune”
Claire Kim, 11th grade,
Bergen County Academies
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Contest Judge: Evan Mantyk, President and Editor of the Society of Classical Poets
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Beautiful, clever and window-opening poems all. I just sketched a refrigerator bird on a piece of scratch paper while enjoying a bit of verse-poked mirth. And I will never look at the phrase, “true blue” in the same way, again. Ever.
Thank you all. Keep writing; both poetry and prose. Inspire us to laugh, to cry . . . and dream.
A distinctive and attractive “Aubade,” Yan Zhang, with a final line dancing into the day. Much insight, Daniel Zhu, in your “Cost of Passage.” Bright futures to all of you whose poems shine here!