The Charles Crupi Memorial Poetry Contest
Annual Poetry Contest Open to Michigan High School Students
Albion College sponsors an annual poetry contest for high school students in Michigan. The contest is dedicated to Charles Crupi, a beloved English professor at Albion who passed away in 2009. Professor Crupi believed that language matters, that poems matter, that students matter—and that is precisely what this contest is about: language, poems, students. All Michigan high school students are eligible to enter. Winners will receive cash prizes ($250, $150, and $100 for the top three entries), and their poems will be published in our national undergraduate journal, The Albion Review. There is no cost to enter. All submissions should be sent in via Submittable.
See contest guidelines and submit your poetry entry here
Congratulations to our winners!
2020-2021 Contest Winners
1st Place
Sara Carmichael
Poem title: Child with Toy Hand Grenade in Central Park, N.Y.C., 1962
Interlochen Arts Academy, Interlochen, MI
2nd Place
Maia Siegel
Poem title: Evangelical Mothers and their Daughters Huddle Around My Fourteen-Year-Old Mouth, Shining a Flashlight Into it to Show What it Looks Like When You Kiss a Boy Before Marriage
Interlochen Arts Academy, Interlochen, MI
3rd Place (tie)
Bea Craig
Poem title: The Language of Evesham
St. Joseph High School, St. Joseph, MI
Sylvia Park
Poem title: California Wildfires
St. Joseph High School, St. Joseph, MI
2019-2020 Contest Winners
1st Place
Maia Siegel
Poem title: New Years Eve in a Basement Outside Lake Success, Long Island
Interlochen Arts Academy, Interlochen, MI
2nd Place
Charlotte Howald
Poem title: Noah's Ark in a Divorce Court
Saginaw Arts & Sciences Academy, Saginaw, MI
3rd Place (tie)
Tatiana Gross
Poem title: You and Love Are Two Separate Concepts
Interlochen Arts Academy, Interlochen, MI
Zoe Paskewicz
Poem title: teeth
Kenowa Hills High School, Grand Rapids, MI
2018-19 Contest Winners
1st Place
Darius Atefat-Peckham
Poem title: Against Tombs
Interlochen Arts Academy, Interlochen, MI
2nd Place
Shira Haus
Poem title: October 27, 2018
Kalamazoo Central High School, Kalamazoo, MI
3rd Place
Sophie Paquette
Poem title: Virgin
Interlochen Arts Academy, Interlochen, MI
2017-18 Contest Winners
1st Place
Joseph Felkers
Poem title: In Detroit We're Somehow Beautiful
Grand Rapids Catholic Central, Grand Rapids, MI
2nd Place
Eugene Lee
Poem title: Girlhood
Skyline High School, Ann Arbor, MI
3rd Place
Zenah Farhan
Poem title: Cab to Jericho
Saint Joseph High School, Saint Joseph, MI
2016-17 Contest Winners
1st Place
Angelica Parker
Poem title: Splinter
Manton High School, Manton, MI
2nd Place
Ritika Pansare
Poem title: Translation
Grosse Pointe North High School, Grosse Pointe, MI
3rd Place (tie)
Madeline Breay
Poem title: Between Seconds
Grand Rapids Catholic Central, Grand Rapids, MI
3rd Place (tie)
Karolyn DeKam
Poem title: The Man
Western Michigan Christian High School, Norton Shores, MI
2015-16 Contest Winners
1st place
Sara Carretero
Poem Title: Meat
Clarkston High School, Clarkston, MI
2nd place (tie)
Hajjar Baban
Poem Title: Maghrib in Afghanistan
Fordson High School, Dearborn, MI
2nd place (tie)
Lauren Kunkel
Poem Title: A Question for the Dead
Saint Joseph High School, Saint Joseph, MI
3rd place
Abigail Cairns
Poem Title: Carcinoma
Gwinn High School, Gwinn, MI
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