First Prize: ESU Formal Verse Contest, judged by Stephen Edgar, December 2024.
Stephen Edgar said the following of my winning poem, "Continuing City":
"What struck and impressed me about this poem was the way the form to some extent enacts the content. The formal regularity of the iambic pentameter and the strict rhyme scheme—both handled with skill—are shaken and pulled apart by enjambment and sentences which lie at odds with that rigid grid, mirroring the disruptions to the city’s stable forms by demolition and construction. Repetition of key words creates a sense of urgency, or even panic, and, literally rising above the damaged cityscape, the poem builds to a dystopian vision of the future."
Third Place: Kierkegaard Poetry Competition, judged by Dana Gioia and Mary Grace Mangano, March 2023.