This year’s RWC Poetry Writing Contest is over, and the votes have been tallied. There was an employee category, for the faculty and staff, and a student category. For the Employee Contest, the winners were as follows: 1st, Juan Valencia; 2nd, John Kraimer; 3rd, Terri Maue; and an Honorable Mention to Jan Neal.
The Student Winners were 1st, Annette Dorris; 2nd, Rebecca Whitton; 3rd, Kevin O’Brien; and the Honorable Mentions, Ilycia Kahn, Rebecca Whitton, Jessica Tucker, Marty Ankey, Jessica Klosterman, Karen Chalfin.
All poems were judged without authorship by this year’s judges: Molly Oberlin, Stan Sulkes, and Lou Olenick.
Prizes were awarded at the Slam U Poetry Cafe held on April 25.