Roxana Rivera Memorial Poetry Contest Winners

Announcing the Winners of the 2007 Roxana Rivera Memorial Poetry Contest
Sponsored by the Creative Writing Program and the Women’s Studies Program
Southern Illinois University Carbondale

Judge Joy Katz, visiting poet at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, has chosen
to honor the following poets and their poems:

UNDERGRADUATE WINNERS:
First place, “the midwife's children,” by Sarah E. Grandt
Second place, “The Bone Glow of Streetlamps” by Abby Blank
Third place, “Scattered Stars” by Spring Beck

Honorable Mentions:
“Mermaids” by Aaron Deutsch
“leaving spiro, oklahoma” by Sarah E. Grandt

GRADUATE WINNERS:
First Place, “Barrel Vault” by Alexander Lumans
Second place, “The Bird World” by Alexander Lumans
Third place, “After The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses” by Alexander Lumans

Honorable Mentions:
“Spring Cleaning,” by Tracy Conerton
“Literary Festival,” by Tracy Conerton

Please join us on Friday, March 30 at 4 pm in the SIUC Student Center Auditorium
for an awards ceremony featuring a reading from our judge, Joy Katz, the author of
Fabulae (Southern Illinois University Press) and The Garden Room (Tupelo Press).
The winners will also read their award-winning poems. There will be
a booksigning and reception in the Old Main Lounge after the ceremony.

The Roxana Rivera Memorial Poetry Contest honors the memory of Roxana Rivera, who
was a poet and graduate student in English at SIUC at the time of her death in 2003.
Additional support for this contest comes from the Judge William Holmes Cook Endowment.