{"id":1705,"date":"2019-04-09T11:52:15","date_gmt":"2019-04-09T17:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/?p=1705"},"modified":"2019-04-15T12:03:03","modified_gmt":"2019-04-15T18:03:03","slug":"announcing-the-winners-of-the-2019-karen-mckinnon-poetry-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/blog\/2019\/04\/09\/announcing-the-winners-of-the-2019-karen-mckinnon-poetry-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcing the Winners of the 2019 Karen McKinnon Poetry Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The winners of the 3nd annual McKinnon Poetry Contest for undergraduate students at UNM recently read their winning poetry during the Undergraduate Open House.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Poetry Contest Founder, Karen McKinnon<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The 3rd place prize went to Lydia Andrews for her poem,
\u201cThe Gargoyle is Unbroken.\u201d Andrews is currently pursuing a Bachelor\u2019s degree in Psychology at the University of New Mexico, with a minor in English. She performs in local poetry slams and volunteers at Agora Crisis Center. Her poetry has appeared in the 2015 and 2018 editions of the Fixed and Free Anthology<\/em> among other publications. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Lydia Andrews and Professor Diane Thiel<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li>
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    Lydia Andrews<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n

    2nd place went to Venkat Nagaswami for his poem,
    \u201cBlack Slate\u201d (in memoriam). Nagaswami
    is an ex-engineer from the Semiconductor Industry who is now pursuing Creative Writing at UNM. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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      Diane Thiel and Venkat Nagaswami<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li>
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      Venkat Nagaswami<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n

      1st place went to Shayna Davidson for her poem, \u201cRhubarb.” Davidson is a senior at UNM studying French and Communication, and hopes to be a teacher and work with bilingual students. She is passionate about literature and the power of words, in learning and in healing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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        Shayna Davidson and Diane Thiel<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li>
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        Shayna Davidson<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

        The winners of the 3nd annual McKinnon Poetry Contest for undergraduate students at UNM recently read their winning poetry during the Undergraduate Open House. The 3rd place prize went to Lydia Andrews for her poem, \u201cThe Gargoyle is Unbroken.\u201d Andrews is currently pursuing a Bachelor\u2019s degree in Psychology at the University of New Mexico, with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1715,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1705"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1718,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1705\/revisions\/1718"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}