Fall 2010

Top Winners

(1^ST PLACE from the Fall issue, as selected by our readers)

These two poems will be entered into the final selection process for

the Easterday Poetry Award, which will take place at the end of the school year.   

“BEST OF ISSUE” WINNER

FALL 2010

 ($500 SCHOLARSHIP PRIZE)

Hunger Pains

Today I ate the moon
And it tasted good

Like a big white sugar cookie
Which would make the stars little crumbs
Spread across the night sky
Like fine fluff
Or trust and pixie dust

Today I slurped down the oceans
Inhaled the wind
And chewed up the rocks
They should put locks on the refrigerators too
Because I will come for that
Before I am through
I am doing this for one reason
I am hungry for life
And living season to season
Kamden Hilliard, HI, Punahou School

EDITOR’S CHOICE SELECTION

($100 Scholarship Prize)

feeding clouds

I watched myself from the window
overlooking the balsa terrace
And I can’t imagine what it must feel like
You, and your sister, growing up
in that flower-filled house – place –
…Across the meandering gyres
of water that is beyond deep green,
and through the little looking glass
I can picture – pick out –  pieces,
of a windswept surrealist landscape…
I’d liefer echeveria to chiffon and chignon
if they’d only let me,
and we could – would,
Dance to the howls of the moon,
watching the stars in the sky that are really Suns,
and we would wade in moonbeams,
reveling in quiet revelations,
and I wouldn’t have it any other way,
wouldn’t you either,
Brother?
Lumin Shen, PA, Henderson High School

“BEST OF ISSUE” NOMINEES

Discourse - Krithika Varagur, NJ, John P. Stevens High School

My Grandmother’s Hair is Outraged - Susannah Sharpless, IN, Park Tudor School

And a Prayer... - Siani Donnellan, CA, Sequoia High School

Other National Winners included in the Fall 2010 issue are:

11:59 pm - Hope Tiffany, FL, homeschooled

On Envy - Becky Short, MA, Minnechaug Regional High School

Immigrants - Rebecca S. Ehrenberg, NJ, Cherry Hill High School East

"we bruise easy" - Emma Specter, NY, Horace Mann School

Untitled - Lindsey Oncken, TX, Cypress Woods High School

Connecting Syllables - Danielle VonLehe, WA, Medical Lake High School

Letting Go - Uchechi Kalu, SC Governor's School for Arts/Humanities

Stagnant No More! - Miguel Espaillat, NY, Philip Randolph Campus HS

The Rose - Shanika Turner, AZ, Pusch Ridge Christian Academy

The Lighthouse - Edward Jesse Capobianco, RI, Homeschooled

Other Rivers - Nancy Nguyen, IA, Central Academy

Dandelion Days - Jacqueline Roberti, RI, St. Mary Academy-Bay View

Today - Sarah Knutson, WI, Bay Port High

These Gentle Giants - Allora Tvedt, WA, homeschool