English Department announces winners of 2025 Magnetic Poetry Contest

English Department announces winners of 2025 Magnetic Poetry Contest

A graphic of a locker with a lock, featuring text on it for a poem entitled Somewhere in Between with magnetic tiles of words stuck on a locker.The English Department is excited to announce the winners of this year’s Magnetic Poetry Contest and would like to thank all who wrote (stuck?) a poem. Many excellent submissions were received. Special thanks to Stacy Gnall and Michael Lauchlan for serving as judges.

You can read the winning poems on Between the Pages. (And the magnets remain—keep on composing!)

Winners are as follows:

  • 1st Place: Ashlee Jones: Somewhere In Between
  • 2nd Place: Liberty Stevens: My Old Cowboy
  • 3rd Place: Ayshah Khalid: Drunk in Love
  • Honorable Mention: Allena Williams: The Call
  • Honorable Mention: Isabella Goolsby: No Good Political Movement

Read winning poems here.