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WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS ANNUAL POETRY COMPETITION

William carlos williams poetry winners

2020:

  1. Joey Lew, University of California, San Francisco, “On an Organ Donation Run”
  2. Ellen Zhang, Harvard Medical School, “Before Chemotherapy”
  3. Wesley Chou, Harvard Medical School, “The Old Man”

2019:

  1. Sophia Gorgens, Emory University School of Medicine, “Pemphigus Vulgaris”
  2. Kaveh Danesh, University of California, San Francisco, “Triage of Two Cultures”
  3. Nikita Raman, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, “The night the Queens sky exploded”

2018:

  1. Sean McEvoy, University of Arizona College of Medicine, Tucson, “When I Saw the Table”
  2. Adam Lalley, Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine, Hofstra/Northwell, “Hematopoiesis”
  3. Poorna Sreekumar, University of Maryland School of Medicine, “Funeral for Billy”

2017:

  1. Namrata Gumaste, Rutgers-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, “Boat Building in Maine”
  2. Candice Mazon, Drexel University, “13 Body Parts”
  3. Cayce Smith, UT Southwestern Medical School, “eleven/19”

2016:

  1. Ileana Horttas, Northeast Ohio Medical University, Rootstown, “Lilacs”
  2. Phoebe Prioleau, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, “Totentanz”
  3. Catherine Tran, University of Nebraska Medical Center, “They Buried Him in California”
  4. Jennifer Hu, University of Rochester School of Medicine, “Burying Ground”

2015:

  1. Chris Yan, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, “Chess from my Father”
  2. Christopher Carr, Tulane University School of Medicine, “When I first encountered the pit of an avocado”
  3. Dawling Dionisio-Santos, University of Rochester School of Medicine, “The Flying Bus”

2014:

  1. Amy Steinberg, University of California, San Francisco, “Starving on the North Side of McClure Pass”
  2. Celeste Lipkes, Virginia Commonwealth University, “Victor”
  3. Alyse Carlson, University of Iowa Carver, “These Iowa Fields”

2013:

  1. Allie Gips, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, “prayer song”
  2. Amanda Rutishauser, Michigan State University, “Neither Created Nor Destroyed”
  3. Michelle Liu, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, “A Hysterectomy”

2012:

  1. Sarah Anderson, Queens University, Kingston, ON, Canada, “In August we drove up the blunt mountains to Dawson city”
  2. Emily Sorg, Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, “Good Dog”
  3. Daniel Grosser, Northeast Ohio Medical University, “Because You’re Supposed To”

2011:

  1. Thomas Albert, University of Virginia, “Certainty”
  2. Katheryn Winters, University of California, San Diego, “Reasons That Life is Difficult”
  3. Young Min Kim, Washington University, St. Louis, “late february”

2010:

  1. Nitin Ahuja, University of Michigan Medical School, “Murmur”
  2. Christina Crumpecker, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Denver, “Insensible Losses”
  3. Chris Marett, The Ohio State University College of Medicine, “Black Tulips”

2009:

  1. Jason Paluzzi, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, “Dandelions”
  2. Jenna Le, Columbia University, “Tire Swing”
  3. Apoorva Balakrishnan, University of Manitoba, “march, 1973”

2008:

  1. Andrea Schwartz, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, “Home Visit”
  2. Jordan Amadio, Harvard Medical School, “Boyhood on the Coat of Italy”
  3. Joanna Cranston, University of Illinois College of Medicine, “Last Day of Class”

2007:

  1. Victoria Chiou, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, “Gross Anatomy: First Cut”
  2. Jennifer Srygley, Harvard Medical School, “Navajo Sheepdog”
  3. Fang Bu, Washington University School of Medicine, “Cinco de Mayo”
  • Kayla Rosen, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, “Zanzibar”

2006:

  1. Sarah Cross, University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, “Monarch”
  2. Sarah Cross, University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, “The Little Sister”
  3. Emily Gillett, Harvard Medical School, “Galileo Leaves Home”

 

2005:

  1. Joanna Pearson, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, “A Bald Woman”
  2. Manesh Dagli, New York University School of Medicine, “When We Returned”
  3. Joanna Pearson, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, “Watching TV with a Woman Dying of AIDS”