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2013 Student Contest

New: Manningham Trust Winners
The following students from Oregon have received awards in the national student poetry contest sponsored by NFSPS and funded by the Manningham Trust:
 
Junior Division: Sixth through Eighth Grade
Second Place: "Persistence of Memory" by Kendrick Lee, Spencer Butte Middle School, Eugene
Fourth Place: "Rose Window Scripted" by Amaya Acost-Lieb, Create Solutions Tutoring, Ashland
First Honorable Mention: "Autumn" by Gabi Cohn, Portland Jewish Academy, Portland
Second Honorable Mention: "Where I'm From" by Lela Miatke, Willow Wind CLC, Ashland
 
Congratulations to Oregon's outstanding young poets!
For a complete list of Manningham winners, please visit the NFSPS student contest website.
 
The Oregon Poetry Association is pleased to congratulate the following winners in the 2013 Student Poetry Contest:
 
Division I: Kindergarten through Second Grade
 
First Place: "Yoga" by Marlene Mackzum, Hope Chinese Charter School, Portland
Second Place: "Winter" by Leo Decker, Willow Wind CLC, Ashland
Third Place: "Water" by Loren Thompson, Willow Wind CLC, Ashland
Honorable Mention: "A Poem in the Light" by Macey Pine, Creative Science School, Portland
Honorable Mention: "Blue Airplanes" by Cecilia Valdovinos, home-schooled, Damascus
Honorable Mention: "Blue Moon" by Daisy Schmeling, Willow Wind CLC, Ashland
Honorable Mention: "Proof of Autumn" by Xavier Rauch Moore, Create Solutions Tutoring, Ashland
Honorable Mention: "Sounds of Poetry" by Torin Repasky, Mary Rieke Elementary School, Portland
Honorable Mention: "Sun" by Amy Amato, Heritage School, Salem
Honorable Mention: "The Shooting Star" by Mazzy Garcia, Willow Wind CLC, Ashland
 
Division II: Third through Fifth Grade
 
First Place: "It Feels Like" by Charlotte Angermeier, Willow Wind CLC, Ashland
Second Place: "I Am Not Alone" by Talia Rosenbloom, Portland Jewish Academy, Portland
Third Place: "River" by Harper Strong, Willow Wind CLC, Ashland
Honorable Mention: "Bad Dreams" by Ellie Kojima, Fir Grove Elementary, Beaverton
Honorable Mention: "Big or Small?" by Samuel Rothstein, Portland Jewish Academy, Portland
Honorable Mention: "Bob" by Max Spencer, West Park Elementary School, Hermiston
Honorable Mention: "Freckles of Light" by Olivia Jacobs, Portland Jewish Academy, Portland
Honorable Mention: "Friendship" by Sutton Guyer, Willow Wind CLC, Ashland
Honorable Mention: "Love" by Callan Skuratowicz, Willow Wind CLC, Ashland
Honorable Mention: "Son of the Shadow" by Henry Seal, Portland Jewish Academy, Portland
 
Division III: Sixth through Eighth Grade
 
First Place: "Persistence of Memory" by Kendrick Lee, Spencer Butte Middle School, Eugene
Second Place: "Autumn" by Gabi Cohn, Portland Jewish Academy, Portland
Third Place: "Something that comes from the heart" by Marly Lopez, Catlin Gabel School, Portland
Honorable Mention: "Art Inspires" by Lila Reich, Catlin Gabel School, Portland
Honorable Mention: "Christmas Wish" by Logan Rothell, Eagle Point Middle School, Eagle Point
Honorable Mention: "I am a branch" by Leila Kenner, Willow Wind CLC, Ashland
Honorable Mention: "Never Again" by Nathan Bray, Eagle Point Middle School, Eagle Point
Honorable Mention: "Rose Window Scripted" by Amaya Acost-Lieb, Create Solutions Tutoring, Ashland
Honorable Mention: "Something Happens" by Korynn Fitzjarrell, Creswell Middle School, Creswell
Honorable Mention: "Where I'm From" by Lela Miatke, Willow Wind CLC, Ashland
 
Division IV: Ninth through Twelfth Grade
 
First Place: "Compass Rose" by Julia Renner, St. Mary's Academy, Portland
Second Place: "Battles" by Madison Cho-Richomnd, Lake Oswego High School, Lake Oswego
Third Place: "Satisfaction" by Kiah Bacon, St. Mary's Academy, Portland
Honorable Mention: "Divorce" by Samantha Spliethof, Eagle Point High School, Eagle Point
Honorable Mention: "End of the world" by Stuart Springs, Eagle Point High School, Eagle Point
Honorable Mention: "Knowledge" by Jaimie Green, Eagle Point High School, Eagle Point
Honorable Mention: "Male Poets Do Something To My Insides" by Miranda Pruett, Eagle Point High School, Eagle Point
Honorable Mention: "Mismatched Expectations" by Fiona Ferguson, Cleveland High School, Portland
Honorable Mention: "Prodigy's Parlor" by Anisha Datta, Glencoe High School, Hillsboro
Honorable Mention: "The Dustiest Corner of my Mixed-Up Soul" by Abigail Leyes, Bend Senior High School, Bend
 
Each of the 40 winners will receive a certificate and a copy of Cascadia: The Oregon Student Poetry Contest Anthology, in which all 40 winning poems will be published.
 

 Thanks to Donors for 2012 Student Poetry Contest
By Eleanor Berry
 
Until this year, OPA’s annual Oregon Student Poetry Contest has been funded by grants. When no grant was secured for the 2012 contest, the OPA board appealed to the membership to cover the expenses. Over the past several years, these have consistently been approximately $1,500 (including cash awards, the printing of Cascadia, space rental and catering for the awards ceremony, publicity, and administrative expenses).
Thanks to the generosity of those listed below, who contributed $1017 in cash donations directly to OPA, and of others who paid all or part of invoices for services directly to vendors, OPA was able to fund the 2012 student contest:
Linda Apel
Kathy Bowman
Carol Brockfield
Greg Chaimov
Alan Contreras
Shirley Cosby
Susan Einowski
Renu Gehring (parent of a student winner)
Quinton Hallett
Margaret Joy
Laura LeHew
Carolyn Martin
Joy McDowell
Margaret Gish Miller
Robin Moore
Shirley Nelson
Rogue Valley unit of OPA
Willa Schneberg
Suzanne Sigafoos
Leisha Wharfield
In addition to the cash donations, the committee coordinating the contest—chair M. E, Hope and members Kathy Bowman, Gail Denham, and Teena Seckler—paid most administrative expenses as well as saving costs by doing much of the publicity electronically and finding rent-free space for the awards ceremony, and Laura LeHew, editor and designer forCascadia, paid half the printing bill. As a result, OPA’s expenses for the contest were reduced by almost a third from those of recent years, and there was a small surplus of just over $200. Because cash donors contributed specifically to fund the student contest, that surplus will not revert to the general fund, but will be held over as seed money for the 2013 student contest.
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 Oregon Student Contest Prizes
There are ten awards in each of the four categories:
            First Place: $30
            Second Place: $20
            Third Place: $10
            Seven Honorable Mentions: $5
 
Each of the 40 winners will receive a certificate and a copy of Cascadia: The Oregon Student Poetry Contest Anthology, in which all 40 winning poems will be published.
 
The top 10 poems (3 winners and all Honorable Mentions) in Divisions III and IV will be entered into the 2012 Manningham Trust Student Contest by the OPA Student Contest Chair. This nationwide contest, sponsored by the National Federation of State Poetry Societies, also awards cash prizes and publication.
 
There are two divisions in the Manningham Trust Student Contest: Junior, Grades 6-8, and Senior, Grades 9-12. Prizes will be awarded to the top ten poems in each division:
1st prize: $75
2nd prize: $50
3rd prize: $40
4th prize: $35
Five Honorable Mentions: $10
Winners also receive a copy of the Manningham Trust Student Contest Winners book containing the winning poems.
 

 
Oregon Student Contest Rules

  1. Submit one original poem (your own individual creative work) on any subject, in any style or form, with a maximum of 40 lines (spaces between stanzas count as lines). A poem is eligible even if it has been published, or has won in another contest. The poem must be titled, except for haiku, senryu, or limerick.
  2. Type or computer-generate your poem on a single sheet of standard 8 1/2 X 11 white paper, one side only, in a standard type face; no fancy fonts, graphics, or illustrations.
  3. Send two copies of your poem. ON THE FIRST COPY, in the upper right hand corner, type your category (I, II, III, or IV) and grade level, name, school, school address and phone number, and the name (first and last)of your writing teacher. Also on this copy,type, and sign the following statement: This poem is my own original creative work and has not been copied, in whole or in part, from any other author's work, including poems posted on the Internet. ON THE SECOND COPY, type the category and grade level only—check to make sure your name does not appear anywhere on this copy.
  4. Mail to: OPA Student Contest, P.O. Box 1016, Klamath Falls, OR 97601-1016. The deadline is February 1, 2012 (postmark).

 
2012 Oregon Student Poetry Contest Checklist

  • The one poem you are submitting is your own original work
  • Your poem has no more than 40 lines; spaces between stanzas count as lines
  • Your poem is typed or computer-generated on one sheet on standard 8.5x11 white paper
  • Your poem appears on one side of the paper only
  • Your poem is in a standard type face and sized 12 font
  • You are sending two copies of your poem
  • [One copy has your poem and, in the upper right corner, the Division (I, II, III, or IV), your grade, your name, your school, your school’s address and phone, and your teacher’s first and last name
  • On that copy, beneath your poem, you have typed and signed the following statement: THIS POEM IS MY OWN ORIGINAL CREATIVE WORK AND HAS NOT BEEN COPIED, IN WHOLE OR IN PART, FROM ANY OTHER AUTHOR’S WORK, INCLUDING POEMS POSTED ON THE INTERNET
  • On the second copy of your poem, in the upper right corner, you have typed only the Division (I, II, III, or IV) and your grade
  • You have made sure that your name does not appear anywhere on the second copy of your poem
  • (Optional) You have enclosed a stamped, self-addressed envelope to receive the Winner’s List

 
Mary E. Hope, Student Contest Chair