{"id":3272,"date":"2023-04-13T12:53:01","date_gmt":"2023-04-13T18:53:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/?p=3272"},"modified":"2023-04-13T13:30:30","modified_gmt":"2023-04-13T19:30:30","slug":"congratulations-to-7th-annual-mckinnon-poetry-contest-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/blog\/2023\/04\/13\/congratulations-to-7th-annual-mckinnon-poetry-contest-winners\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations to 7th Annual McKinnon Poetry Contest Winners"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The English Department congratulates the winners of the 7<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0Annual Karen McKinnon Poetry Awards. We would like to express our deep gratitude to Karen McKinnon for her generous gift which funds this annual award, as well as our gratitude to this year&#8217;s faculty judges, Sarah Hernandez, Scarlett Higgins, and Andrew Bourelle, and our faculty Contest Coordinator, Diane Thiel.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-rounded\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"281\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Tessa-Keenan-281x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3277\" srcset=\"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Tessa-Keenan-281x300.jpeg 281w, https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Tessa-Keenan.jpeg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 281px) 100vw, 281px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>1<sup>st<\/sup>\u00a0place prize went to <strong>Tessa Keenan<\/strong>\u00a0for, \u201cFacets.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tessa Keenan is a poet from Tasmania, Australia who will graduate with a Bachelor of Arts in English in Fall 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-rounded\"><figure class=\"alignright size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"156\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Phia-Smith-156x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3278\" srcset=\"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Phia-Smith-156x300.jpeg 156w, https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Phia-Smith.jpeg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 156px) 100vw, 156px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>2<sup>nd<\/sup>\u00a0place went to <strong>Phia Smith<\/strong> for, \u201cTomorrow I will pour you out.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Phia Smith is a poet from Bend, Oregon. She is studying English and Chemistry at UNM with an expected graduation of Spring 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-rounded\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"258\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Elijah-Padilla-258x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3279\" srcset=\"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Elijah-Padilla-258x300.jpg 258w, https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Elijah-Padilla.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 258px) 100vw, 258px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>3<sup>rd<\/sup>\u00a0place went to <strong>Elijah Padilla<\/strong> for &#8220;another poem about autumn and death.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Elijah  Padilla is a senior at the University of New Mexico studying philosophy and English. In his free time, he makes art and writes both poetry and fiction. He aspires to complete his M.A. in philosophy and to teach in the future.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The English Department congratulates the winners of the 7th\u00a0Annual Karen McKinnon Poetry Awards. We would like to express our deep gratitude to Karen McKinnon for her generous gift which funds this annual award, as well as our gratitude to this year&#8217;s faculty judges, Sarah Hernandez, Scarlett Higgins, and Andrew Bourelle, and our faculty Contest Coordinator, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3275,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcements","category-awards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3272","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=3272"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3281,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3272\/revisions\/3281"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}