WFOP Contest Results
2025 Results
Kay Saunders Emerging Poet Prize
First Place $100
Deborah Gordon - “Domicile”
Second Place $50
Jef Leisgang - “Falling Out of the Shower As a Reflection on Mortality”
Third Place $30
Laura Selenka - “Monday”
Honorable Mentions
G. Anthony - “The Season Within”
A.M. Albaugh - “Nemophilist”
Muse Prize
First Place
Goeff Collins - "Poem Near Coughlin, MT"
Second Place
Katrina Serwe - "Seeking Possibility"
Third Place
Marsha Tuchscherer - "More or Less"
Honorable Mentions
Ronnie Hess - "On Losing a Hen, On Setting It Free"
Jacqueline Redmer - "Entering the Belly of the Whale"
Naomi Cochran - "Map of the Brain"
Student Ekphrastic Contest
David F. Driesbach, And A Blue Footed Boobie (9/20), 2000
Winning Poem
“And a Blue Footed Boobie: Watching the Bonds Break” by Emily B.
12th Grade
Arrowhead Union High School
Educator: Terri Carnell
Runners-up
“Alluring Fraudulence” by Gabrielle M.
12th Grade
Arrowhead Union High School
Educator: Terri Carnell
“In the Last Moments” by Taylor M.
11th Grade
Arrowhead Union High School
Educator: Terri Carnell
David Kroll, Landscape (Rose Vase), 2019
Winning Poem
"Balancing Actions" by Brady W.
12th Grade
KM Global Charter School
Educator: Elizabeth Jorgenson
Runners-up
“Teetering” by Mariella L.
11th Grade
Kettle Moraine High School
Educator: Angela McLean
“Caged Desire” by Ty W.
12th Grade
Arrowhead Union High School
Educator: Katie Herrmann
Theodore Robinson, Child with Geese, 1886
Winning Poem
“To Survive is to Pretend” by Helen T.
11th Grade
Hayward High School
Educator: Karen Duffy
Runners-up
“Wonder is the Way to Win” by Phoenix R.
11th Grade
Hayward High School
Educator: Karen Duffy
“A Child-like Curiosity” by Harrison P.
12th Grade
Arrowhead Union High School
Educator: Terri Carnell
Student Ekphrastic Contest
Winning & Runners-up Poems
