FIRST ANNUAL
TENNESSEE COLLEGIATE
POETRY CONTEST
Tennessee Collegiate Poetry Contest Winners
1st Place: “Still” by by Tate Haugen, Tusculum, Greeneville
2nd Place: “East TN Autumn” by Kelsey Ann Guy, East Tennessee State University (ETSU), Johnson City
3rd Place: “Thistle’s Crime” by Kiersten Paxton, Tusculum, Greeneville
Honorable Mentions
“Citico” by Major Joshua Frerich II , Tennessee Wesleyan University, Athens
“Chipped Front Tooth” by Erika Perez Cortazar, ETSU, Johnson City
2nd Place: “East TN Autumn” by Kelsey Ann Guy, East Tennessee State University (ETSU), Johnson City
3rd Place: “Thistle’s Crime” by Kiersten Paxton, Tusculum, Greeneville
Honorable Mentions
“Citico” by Major Joshua Frerich II , Tennessee Wesleyan University, Athens
“Chipped Front Tooth” by Erika Perez Cortazar, ETSU, Johnson City
ABOUT THE JUDGE
A poet, playwright, essayist, and editor, Linda Parsons is the poetry editor for Madville Publishing and the copy editor for Chapter 16, the literary website of Humanities Tennessee. She is published in such journals as The Georgia Review, Iowa Review, Prairie Schooner, Southern Poetry Review, Terrain, The Chattahoochee Review, Shenandoah, and many others. Her sixth collection is Valediction: Poems and Prose. Five of her plays have been produced by Flying Anvil Theatre in Knoxville, Tennessee. She is an eighth-generation Tennessean. |