ADULT AWARDS
1st Place – $500
Josh Lefkowitz, “A Poem of Fact”
2nd Place – $250
Kathleen Hellen, “Everyday Halloween”
3rd Place – $150
Lorna Davis, “Buyer’s Remorse”
4th Place – $100
5th Place– $75
Honorable Mentions | Adult
George Ian Thomas, “Trina’s Eyes Made Me See”
Amber Shreves, “There is Strength in Falun Gong”
Allegra Jostad Silberstein, “For the Falun Gong of China”
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HIGH SCHOOL AWARDS
1st Place – $100
Noah Hale, “To Faraway Friends”
2nd Place – $75
Angelique Clark, “The Calm Before the War”
3rd Place – $50
Kim Su Fowler, “For All That Love Is Worth”
Honorable Mentions | High School
Jessica Lecorchick, “Cloaked China”
Fiza Hasan, “The Abuse We Suffer”
Christina Knight, “The Story of Gao Rongrong”
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Contest Judges
Evan Mantyk, President of The Society of Classical Poets
Adam Miller, FoFG Editor
(with additional helpful eyes from the FoFG Editorial Staff)
Note from the Editors: most of these poems were written by poets who just recently learned about Falun Gong and the persecution. While we recognize and commend these poems as voices of support, they do not represent Falun Gong itself or even the views of FoFG as an organization. For a genuine understanding of the practice, one would have to explore the teachings at their very source.
Congratulations, all. Powerful poems.
Just wonderful to read these poems!! Heartfelt and true. Thank you so much