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Faricy Award for Poetry

2022-2023

Faricy Award for Poetry

Yong-Yu Huang “Dear Vincent”


2020-2021

Faricy Award for Poetry
Christian Thorsberg “Proem, Strip Mall, Romancing Ghosts”

2019-2020

Faricy Award for Poetry

First Place
Nadalyn Bangura “Interview Eight”

Honorable Mention
Sloane Scott “Three Poems”


2018-2019

Faricy Award for Poetry

First Place
Ella J. Lombard  
"Lilith Sonnet Sequence"

Second Place
Laila Francis
"Queen Esther"

Third Place
Sydney Shaw
"Faith"


2017-2018

Faricy Award for Poetry

First Place Co-Winners
Grace Gay
"Caring and Feeding of the Dead"

Julian Kanagy "Aubade"

Second Place Co-Winners
Emily Jahn
"Ballad of Nani's Earrings"

Laila Francis "Covenant"

Tara Shirvaikar "Nani's Earrings"

Third Place
Marielle Issa
"Chocolat"


2016-2017

Faricy Award for Poetry

First Place Co-Winners
Caroline Levy
"I Am Not America"

Kyndal Thomas "Still Malleable"

Second Place
Jessica Ogwumike
"Piedade, Cononized"

Third Place
Nicole Wallace
"#72 North Avenue"


2015-2016

Faricy Award for Poetry

First Place
Megan Pan
"On Seeing My Father's Abandoned Hometown

Second Place
Rebecca Ehrmann
"Art World"

Third Place
Mahalia Sobhani
"Girl With Her Hair Cut Short"


2014-2015

Faricy Award for Poetry

First Place
Ali Gardezi
"Journey to the Arsoned Home"

Second Place
Shuoyang Sun
"Distorted Memories"

Third Place
Matt Levin
"On Titian's Portrait of Filippo Archinto


2013-2014

Faricy Award for Poetry

First Place
Peter Tolly
"Paper Boat"

Second Place Co-Winners
Samantha Kostick
"Lake's Edge"

Matthew Levin "March 28th, 1941 - By the River Ouse"

Third Place
Daphne Kim
"What We Do"


2012-2013

Faricy Award for Poetry

Corinne White "The Courtship of Wyoming and I"

Bryce O' Tierney "Open, Smell, Settle, Begin..."

2011-2012

Faricy Award for Poetry

Will Sonheim "An Empty Nest"

Ashley Albert "Ode to Snow"

Hilary Rasch "Hummingbirds"

Caroline Dean "Sprawl"

Nicole Bronnimann "Hansel & Gretel: At the Dinner Table


2010-2011

Faricy Award for Poetry

Katherin Defliese "Immolation"

Priyanka Bose "After the Bath"

Emily Anderson "A Day on a Page"

Jennifer Mahlum "Black Tulips"

Martin Kim "Woods"

Caitlin Enders "How to Keep your Boat Well-Painted"

Bryan Jewell "Constructed"

Johnathan Ayala "Hubble Ultra Deep Field"

Brittany Jaekel "Thetis"


2009-2010

Faricy Award for Poetry

Christopher Warner "My Brother on the Lake"

Brittany Jaekel "Ode to the Crow River"

Joanna Beer "Skipping Stone"

Madeline Weinstein "Night Visit"


2008-2009

Faricy Award for Poetry

Christopher Adamson "Balanced Rock"

Ashley Keyser "Winer Poems 2009"


2007-2008

Faricy Award for Poetry

Andy Kryshak "Bird Speak"

Dinah Finkelstein "Objective Observer"

Tim DeMay "The Mystery of Faith, the Shark, the Edge of the World"

Nanette O'Brien "Only Child"


2006-2007

Faricy Award for Poetry

Ellen Cantrell "Ultreya"

Nanette O'Brien "Philadelphia International Airport Terminal D 9-16: Exhibit of Shells from the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia"

Brittany Bettendorf "Body Worlds Exhibit" and "Burnt Palace"

Harris Sockel "Fourth of July, Jay, New York" and "A Rainbow Melts Inside the Alchoholic"

Bridget Mendel "Outside Voices"


2005-2006

Faricy Award for Poetry

J. C. Longbottom "On Lake Gabbro"

Gregory Marshall "Patroclus Stripped of Armor Speaks" and "Fox Skull"

Daniel Gross "The Day I Met Bonnie"

Ying Zhu Chin "Accusing the Panda"


2004-2005

Faricy Award for Poetry

John Dixon "Why I Don't Always Know What to Say"

Sarah Elizabeth Zucker "Ode to the Queen of Too Much Information"

Laura Dunn "Concepcion"

Andrew Nelson "Findings" and "The Autopsy (for William Blake)" and "Paris"

Christian Engley "Excrement" and "Man in Black" and "The Survivor"

David Ro "Sonnetina 2 - I Told Mother I Wanted to Write"


2003-2004

Faricy Award for Poetry

Beth Laux "Midnight and Barefoot"

Matthew Scharf "Shoveling"

David Kieley "Clifton, NJ" and "What Your Dead Relatives Are Up To" and "The Persistent Heathen"