Selected from over 40 entries from San Antonio youth poets, and 72 entries from adult poets from San Antonio and South Texas, we congratulate these winners for their outstanding poems written in response to the selected artworks. Our thanks to the participating museums, to all the poets who shared their work, and to the organizations that helped publicize the contest.
~Jim LaVilla-Havelin, Eddie Vega, Linda Simone
*Click this link to read the winning poems
ARTWORK:
The Briscoe Western Art Museum, With No Roof but a Resistol, Bruce Green
Adult Winners:
Prairie Madness by Jonathan Fletcher, San Antonio, TX
These Old Bones by Diane Gonzales Bertrand, San Antonio, TX
Youth Winners:
The Rising Sun by Katharine Porter, Karen’s City, TX (Youth 13+)
ARTWORK:
The McNay Art Museum, The Sole Sitter, Willie Cole.
Adult Winners:
6:37 PM by Amy Lewis, San Antonio, TX
Sole Sitter I by Bett Butler, San Antonio, TX
Kicks by W. A. “Bill” Coggins, San Antonio, TX
Youth Winners:
Footprints of Knowing by Theo Crump, San Antonio, TX (Youth 13+)
The Cabinet by the Door by Catherine Day, San Antonio, TX (Youth 13+)
Waste by Catherine Day, San Antonio, TX (Youth 13+)
ARTWORK:
Ruby City, Hub, 3rd Floor, Union Wharf, 23 Wenlock Road, London N1 7ST UK, Do Ho Suh
Adult Winners:
Pop-Pop’s Hallway by Robert J. Cavazos, Converse, TX
Genius loca by Pablo Miguel Martinez, San Antonio, TX
Youth Winner:
Hub, 3rd Floor, Union Wharf, 23 Wenlock Road, London N1 7ST, UK by Aarav Gedala, San Antonio, TX (Youth 13+)
ARTWORK:
San Antonio Museum of Art: Landscape of Four Seasons, Unkoku Togan.
Adult Winners:
Haiku for Landscape of Four Seasons by Veronica Morrison, San Antonio, TX
After Unkoku Togan’s Landscape of Four Seasons by Mark Heinlein, San Antonio, TX
Youth Winners:
Ever-Changing by Ariana Chaudhary, San Antonio, Tx (Youth 13+)
Memory by Pia Nathani, San Antonio, TX (Youth to age 12)
Landscape of the Four Seasons by Isabel Brown, San Antonio, TX (Youth 13+)
ARTWORK:
The Witte Museum, Carretta Wheel from a Tejano Freighter.
Adult Winners:
Abuelo’s First Job by Diane Gonzales Bertrand, San Antonio, TX
A Wheelwright by Milton Jordan, Georgetown, TX
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