ES Major Zora Sowinska Wins 2025 Academy of American Poets Contest

Ethnic Studies Major Zora Sowinska wins this year's Academy of American Poets Contest

ES Major zora Sowinska, June 2025 (photo from cal poly english)

Ethnic Studies major, minoring English, Zora Sowinska has won the Academy of American Poets Contest for 2025! Her winning poem titled, A Visit to Lisamu, has earned Zora a prize, membership, and will be announced in the Academy's Annual Report.

Presented by the Academy of American Poets, their University and College Poetry Prize program sponsors over two hundred annual poetry prizes at colleges and universities across the U.S, and has awarded cash prizes to nearly ten thousand student poets since the program's inception. 

sowinska, Zora. "A Visit to Lisamu". 2025.

 

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