{"id":2236,"date":"2017-06-02T12:49:49","date_gmt":"2017-06-02T19:49:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wou.edu\/english\/?page_id=2236"},"modified":"2025-05-20T14:36:13","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T21:36:13","slug":"peter-sears-poetry-prize","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/english\/scholarships-awards\/peter-sears-poetry-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Sears Poetry Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.wou.edu\/english\/files\/2025\/05\/IMG_0505_Original-1-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-22927 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.wou.edu\/english\/files\/2025\/05\/IMG_0505_Original-1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wou.edu\/english\/files\/2025\/05\/IMG_0505_Original-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wou.edu\/english\/files\/2025\/05\/IMG_0505_Original-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wou.edu\/english\/files\/2025\/05\/IMG_0505_Original-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wou.edu\/english\/files\/2025\/05\/IMG_0505_Original-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/wou.edu\/english\/files\/2025\/05\/IMG_0505_Original-1-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/wou.edu\/english\/files\/2025\/05\/IMG_0505_Original-1-510x382.jpg 510w, https:\/\/wou.edu\/english\/files\/2025\/05\/IMG_0505_Original-1-1080x810.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Pictured LTR: 2024-2025 recipients and runner-ups: Carla Macedo, Guthrie Romas, and Aubrey Laine Baker.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">To learn more<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Please click below<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/wou.edu\/newsflash\/2017\/05\/11\/peter-sears-poetry-prize\/\">Peter Sears Poetry Prize<\/a><\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: left;\">Annual Recipients &amp; Runners-up<\/h2>\n<p><strong>2024-2025<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>First Prize: Guthrie Romas, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/wou.edu\/english\/2025-peter-sears-poetry-prize-winner\/\">Spending Time with an Old Man in Bellingham\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Second Prize: Carla Macedo, <a href=\"https:\/\/wou.edu\/english\/2025-peter-sears-poetry-prize-runner-up\/\">\u201cParking Garage\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Third Prize: Aubrey Laine Baker, <a href=\"https:\/\/wou.edu\/english\/2025-peter-sears-poetry-prize-runner-up-2\/\">\u201cSnaggletooth\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>2023-2024<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>First Prize: <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sophie Borgstah, <a href=\"https:\/\/wou.edu\/english\/peter-sears-poetry-2023-2024\/\">&#8220;Tens Days After Treatment&#8221;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Second Prize: <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Julian Zeigler, <a href=\"https:\/\/wou.edu\/english\/second-prize-peter-sears-poetry-2023-2024\/\">&#8220;4 AM&#8221;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Third Prize: <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lucas Montpart, <a href=\"https:\/\/wou.edu\/english\/third-prize-peter-sears-poetry-2023-2024\/\">&#8220;Celebrating My 21st Birthday with My Dead Brothers&#8221;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<table style=\"width: 1353px;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 443.819px;\"><strong>2019-2020<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>First Prize: Cylinda Neidenbach, <a href=\"https:\/\/wou.edu\/english\/files\/2020\/05\/First-prize-To-Bear-Arms.pdf\">&#8220;To Bear Arms&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Second Prize: Cheyan Swan, <a href=\"https:\/\/wou.edu\/english\/files\/2020\/05\/2019-2020Second-Prize-A-spell-for-Revenge.pdf\">&#8220;a spell for revenge&#8221; 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