Eighth Annual (2009) GCC Student Poetry Contest Winners

The Alfred C. O’Connell Library Proudly Announces The Eighth Annual GCC Student Poetry Contest Winners
Award	Poet	Title of Winning Poem
First Prize	Nate Palmer	Blackberry (Not Just an Electronic Promotion of Capitalism)
Second Prize	Sadie Waala	Self-Portrait
Third Prize (tie)	Terra Bartlebaugh	Spring
Third Prize (tie)	Daniel Branciforte	Bubbled
Honorable Mention - Body of Work	Mike Hoerbelt	I am The Purpose is Possibilities Excited to be Exhausted
Math X	Ricky Howard	untitled
Math Poem	Andrea Louis	A Haiku Poem
Read all the winning poems
Winners (left to right): Mike Hoerbelt, Andrea Louis, Daniel Branciforte, Nate Palmer and Terra Bartlebaugh (unavailable for photo: Sadie Waala, Ricky Howard) Winners were honored April 16 at the 2009 Poetry Contest Awards Ceremony. Above, Nate Palmer recites his First Prize winning poem Blackberry (Not Just an Electronic Promotion of Capitalism).