{"id":23304,"date":"2025-10-20T08:56:21","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T12:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/?p=23304"},"modified":"2025-10-20T16:56:45","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T20:56:45","slug":"english-department-announces-winners-of-2025-magnetic-poetry-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/2025\/10\/20\/english-department-announces-winners-of-2025-magnetic-poetry-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"English Department announces winners of 2025 Magnetic Poetry Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-23305\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2025\/10\/poetry-winner.jpg?resize=263%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"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.\" width=\"263\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2025\/10\/poetry-winner.jpg?resize=263%2C300&amp;ssl=1 263w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2025\/10\/poetry-winner.jpg?resize=481%2C550&amp;ssl=1 481w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2025\/10\/poetry-winner.jpg?w=637&amp;ssl=1 637w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 263px) 100vw, 263px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/>The <a href=\"https:\/\/chass.udmercy.edu\/academics\/eng\/\">English Department<\/a> is excited to announce the winners of this year\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p>You can read the winning poems on <em><a href=\"https:\/\/detroitmercyenglish.com\/\">Between the Pages<\/a>.<\/em> (And the magnets remain\u2014keep on composing!)<\/p>\n<p>Winners are as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>1st Place:<\/strong> Ashlee Jones: S<em>omewhere In Between<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>2nd Place:<\/strong> Liberty Stevens: <em>My Old Cowboy<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>3rd Place:<\/strong> Ayshah Khalid: <em>Drunk in Love<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Honorable Mention:<\/strong> Allena Williams: <em>The Call<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Honorable Mention:<\/strong> Isabella Goolsby: <em>No Good Political Movement<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/detroitmercyenglish.com\/2025\/10\/08\/magnetic-poetry-contest-2025\/\">Read winning poems here.<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the second year, UDM\u2019s English Department sponsored a Magnetic Poetry Contest, where all were invited to try their hand at original compositions using the building blocks of poetry. You can read the winning poems on &#8220;Between the Pages,&#8221; the digital magazine of Detroit Mercy&#8217;s Department of English.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":677,"featured_media":23305,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[6,4404],"tags":[6164,6165,6523,3684,6445,198,7042],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2025\/10\/poetry-winner.jpg?fit=637%2C728&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbwnTV-63S","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23304"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/677"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23304"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23331,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23304\/revisions\/23331"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}