The Lyric College Poetry Contest

Directed toward undergraduate enrolled full time in an American or Canadian college or university

$500 First Prize
$100 Second Prize
$50 Third Prize
$100 Honorarium to the library of the First Prize Winner

Poems must be original and unpublished, 39 lines or less, written in English in traditional forms, preferably with regular scansion and rhyme.

Winners will be announced and published in the Spring issue of The Lyric.

Entries must be postmarked not later than December 1, 2008 and sent to:

    The Lyric College Contest
    c/o Tanya Cimonetti
    1393 Spear Street
    South Burlington, VT 05403
The following information must appear on each poem:
    Student's name and complete address
    College's name and complete address

Contestants should retain copies of all poems.

2008 College Poetry Contest Winner

We would like to thank Tanya Cimonetti for her good humor and diligence in facilitating the College Contest once again.  In consultation, she chose the
College Contest winner, which follows.  Second Prize went to Victor Schramm, for “Nocturne in White,” from Eugene, Oregon.

Rachel Lieberman studied with Midge Goldberg at Chester College of New England in Chester, NH .

BALLAD OF THE BEAMISH BOY

The slithy toves have run and gone
And now will gimble nevermore
So come, and sing with me this song.

A ballad of a boy so strong,
For what he’s vanquished with his sword
Was slithy, but is now long gone.

No longer will the fruming dawn
Gyre the townsfolk to their core
So let us sing this galumphing song.

His vorpal blade withstood the claws
Of the manxome and ferocious boar
And so the toves are all long gone.

Their master died upon the lawn
They mourned his body on the floor
And cried a sad and uffish song.

He is a boy with such great brawn
A head for a trophy on his door
For now the slithy toves are gone
And we can finally sing this song.

Rachel Lieberman, Chester College, New Hampshire