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Qiaorui (Sherry) Zhang
Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest 2025 (view all the winners)
First Prize, Margaret Reid, Traditional Verse
Illustration by Connie Chang
This poem previously won the Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers in 2025. It is in a form known as the contrapuntal, which interweaves two or more poems to create a text that can be read in multiple directions.
Prizes: $3,750
Deadline: Apr 1, 2026
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