Ned Foskey Poetry Prize, 2023

Winners and Honorable Mentions

The Ned Foskey Poetry Prize is a student poetry competition at Kalamazoo Valley Community College. Foskey was a tutor in Kalamazoo Valley's Writing Center. The contest was established by his family and friends to honor him and the students he helped.

Thank you to all who submitted poems for this year's contest.

This year's contest judge was poet and Kalamazoo Valley Community College instructor, Robert Post, who selected winners and honorable mentions from 80 entries.

First place: "One Off, Two On," Charlotte Giscombe
Second place: "A Litany of Lost Things," Olivia Schreuder
Third place: "The Ladder is Falling Down," John Redder

Honorable Mentions:
"I Hear You," Kahlia Morgan
"It was always going to end up like this," Olivia Schreuder
"A Date in Central Park with a Girl from Vancouver," Gabe Wikle
"Withdrawn," Vivienne Therese Bogedain
"Trapped," Ally Jodway

Please join us for the annual Ned Foskey Poetry Reading to celebrate our winners and honorable mentions:

• Friday, April 7
• 7:30 pm at the Center for New Media, downtown Kalamazoo