Roxana Rivera Memorial Poetry Contest Winners: 2010

Announcing the Winners of the 2010 Roxana Rivera Memorial Poetry Contest
SPONSORED BY THE CREATIVE WRITING PROGRAM AND THE WOMEN’S STUDIES PROGRAM
SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY CARBONDALE

Judge Lee Ann Roripaugh, poet and professor at the University of South Dakota, has chosen to honor the following poets and their poems:

UNDERGRADUATE WINNERS:
First place: Jonathan Veach for “Renoir’s Vase of Chrysanthemums”
Second place: Stephenie DeArcangelis for “How It Is, Not Why”
Third place: Rheanna Pulley for “Mondays in Winter”

GRADUATE WINNERS:
First place: Amie Whittemore for “Lightning Bug Season”
Second place: Sarah McCartt-Jackson for “Vanishing Point”
Third place: Ruth Awad for “When My Mother Returned”
Honorable Mention: Jonathan Travelstead for “Clam Gulch, Alaska”


Please join us on Monday, March 29 2010 at 4 pm in the SIUC Student Center Auditorium for an awards ceremony featuring a reading from our judge, Lee Ann Roripaugh, the author of On the Cusp of a Dangerous Year (SIU Press)and two other collections of poetry. 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 the time of her death in 2003. Additional support for this contest comes from the Judge William Holmes Cook Endowment.