ES Major Zora Sowinska Wins 2026 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 2026! She previously won this same award in prior year, 2025. Her winning poem titled, A Foray into the State of Orphanhood, 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.
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