Roxana Rivera Memorial Poetry Contest Winners!

Announcing the Winners of the 2013 Roxana Rivera Memorial Poetry Contest

SPONSORED BY THE CREATIVE WRITING PROGRAM AND THE WOMEN'S STUDIES PROGRAM

SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY CARBONDALE



Judge Nickole Brown, poet and professor at University of Arkansas
Little Rock, has chosen to honor the following poets and poems:



UNDERGRADUATE WINNERS:

Winner: Chelsey Harris for "After the Second Accident"



Runner Up: Kevin Savoie for "to Mrs. F – a memory of sitting up late
and watching a particular scarring episode of "All in the Family"

Runner Up: Shaylin Goins for "c/o Menard Correctional Center, 1975"



GRADUATE WINNERS:

Winner: Brett Gaffney for "An Offering"


Runner Up: Max Schleicher for "60th Street Boogie"

Runner Up: Austin Kodra for "Flame and Sometimes Water"



Please join us on Thursday, March 28 2013 at 4 pm in the Old Baptist
Foundation Recital Hall for an awards ceremony featuring a reading from
our judge, Nickole Brown, author of Sister, published by Red Hen
Press. The winners will also read their award-winning poems. There
will be a booksigning and reception in the Faner Humanities Lounge
after the ceremony.