Congratulations to the Young Pegasus 2020 Selected Poets!
Judges: Jay Brandon, Anthony Flores, Fernando Flores, Jane Focht-Hansen, Esperanza Garza-Danweber, Xelena Gonzalez
A
Maya Allen, 14
"Why I Write"
Sofia Mathilda Angulo-Lopera, 17
"?IS LOVE WHAT"
Hayden Antu, 12
"Silent Mode"
B
Sarah Marie Barrera, 13
"Thrown Down the Drain"
Penny Bell, 8
"Horizon"
Evelyn Louise Bowhay-Carnes, 8
"Smile"
Lucille Sam Brown, 10
"A.L.I.E.N."
C
Aria Cervantes, 8
"Nature"
Keira Catherine Clements, 13
"A Magpie's Mourning"
"On the Devil's Tram"
Annebelle Leigh Conklin, 11
"Moonshine My Cat"
D
Jimena Delgado, 9
"Una flor más en el jardínn"
E
Alison Baseley Elizabeth, 16
"Untitled"
F
Leigha Engel Forrest, 17
"Bitterness"
"Learnt"
"Molting Summer"
"Sonnet to Repeated Pasts"
"The Wash"
G
Emma Natalia Garrido, 12
"Colorful Mess"
"Never Enough"
Aarav Gedala, 12
"A seashell shaped like a duck"
Sofia Giese, 11
"Proud Purple"
Victoria Nicole Godkin, 9
"A Trip to the Beach"
"Introverts"
Ella Sofia Gonzalez, 10
"Sister"
H
William Hall, 8
"Electric Eels"
Sloane Gayle Holdridge, 9
"On the Trials of my Hair"
Claire Huntsman, 11
"My Room Is a Mess"
Grace Huntsman, 9
"My Birthday at the Zoo"
Kate Huntsman, 6
"Pandas"
J
Lucia Maria Jude, 11
"Seven Ways to Look at a Pinecone"
K
Meghal Keshav, 11
"Seven Ways of Looking at Mud"
Addy Kreidel, 12
"Silence"
L
Yesenia Romero Laguna, 9
"La Fuerza de la Vida"
"La Naturaleza"
Joelle Marie Lamaie, 15
"Sunset"
Genesis Alejandra Linares, 17
"Eterno"
Kaitlyn Peaches Lomas, 17
"Singular Snowflake"
M
Benjamin Morales, 16
"Carnival Lights"
"Hola Cariño"
Anirudh Sai Mukkamala, 11
"Black"
"Blue"
N
Margaret E. Nagy, 7
"Grandma's Farm"
O
Kaylah Elizabeth Oulch, 15
"Anxiety"
"Comely"
"Lonely"
P
Caroline Avery Percival & Phoebe Reilly, 10
"My Friend is Obsessed With Cows, By Phoebe Reilly and Caroline Percival"
Kiyah Sierra Perry, 17
"Symbiosis"
Kayla Mae Price, 15
"Fancy Shawl Dancer"
Nathan James Pugh, 10
"Dreamcatcher: The Nightmare Within"
R
Mary Rentschler, 9
"The Ocean Sounds"
Nat Lopez Romero, 16
"Teotl"
S
Kaleigh Elizabeth Santillanes, 14
"Coffee Beans"
Joanna Lee Sohn, 13
"Disgust"
Nivedita Somasundaram, 8
"Art"
"Fireworks"
"Our Story (Co-joined Twins)
"Why do people run?"
Hazel Spedding, 14
"an excerpt from my will"
"Drowning"
T
Adya Tripathi, 7
"Look Within........ Strength, Courage and Hope"
V
Haley Michelle Vallejo, 17
"Chelsea's Secrets"
"Hourglass"
Sarina M. Varela, 17
"SALAD DAYS; a poem I've wanted to write for a while"
Sunny Vuong, 15
"Borrowed Time"
"Circe"
"Indecision"
"Some Child of the Ocean"
W
Charlie Weiner, 13
"The Red Panda"
Michael Daniel Weiner, 13
"Old Macdonald HAD a cow"
Isabella Wissman, 13
"The Tower"
Isaac Whiteley, 10
"??"
Abigail Katherine Windscheffel, 11
"The day will never end"
Congratulations to the Young Pegasus 2021 Selected Poets!
Judges: Jay Brandon, Anthony Flores, Fernando Esteban Flores, Jane Focht-Hansen, Esperanza Garza-Danweber
B
Nidhi Bathla, 12
"Will Life Ever Be Normal Again"
Addilyn Perrine Beard, 11
"Golden Orb"
Nathen Becker, 9
"Clock"
"Me and my eraser"
Fiona B. Bell, 7
"Parrots"
Aadhya Bobbala, 11
"An Ode to Fire"
Alexandria Joelle Boggan, 15
"Isolated Together"
Billy Harden Brysacz, 11
"I Hate Sound"
C
Alessandro Castagnini, 12
"Insane"
Carissa Renee Ceasor, 16
"A Moment You Will See Again"
"Empathy"
"New Beginnings"
Ariana Chaudhary, 13
"I Speak"
Keira Catherine Clements, 15
"An Ode to My Alien Button Up"
Cara Janet Colburn, 7
"The Air"
D
Octavia Xol Garza Danweber, 10
"I Gather the Rain"
Lorin Catherine Day, 14
"The Breath"
Skylar Ruan Fiebrich, 16
"Yardwork"
F
Julia Katrina Gancayco, 15
"I wish"
Ella Sofia Oranday Gonzalez, 12
"The Bees"
KK Graham, 10
"The man who can't stop waving"
H
Alyssa Li Herevia, 17
"Hey... Me"
Jace Robert Heuberger, 7
"Filled with Photons"
K
Jane Marie Kamata, 16
"Conversations With A Full Moon"
"Unwritten"
M
Robbie Skinner Martin, 12
"Erosion"
Peyton Lea Martinez, 12
"Story"
Claire Elise McLaurin, 9
"Binder"
"Summer"
Jasmine Melvin, 12
"My Diversity"
Robert Melvin, 10
"Life online"
N
Eleanor R. Nagy, 13
"Javawocky"
Margaret E. Nagy, 8
"Thoughts on the Eve of the Due Date"
Andy Quang Ngu, 15
"Evening Stroll"
Bella Dea Norris, 12
"Shoes"
Danica Nuñez, 15
"Methods of Writing a Poem"
O
Eyleen Ortiz, 13
"Roses and thorns"
P
Riana Farrah Pliskin, 12
"Pain Brush"
"Snowman"
Alexandra Poyo, 11
"Siren song"
Nathan James Pugh, 11
"Quarks Matter"
R
Benjamin Rainey, 9
"Spider spider"
S
Liliana Shoaf, 14
"Fly"
"Poison"
Joanna Sohn, 14
"Facade"
Nivedita Somasundaram, 9
"Baby Poetry"
Peter Daniel Szalai, 8
"Origami"
"The Directions"
T
Gabriel McChesney Oliveira Martins TenEyck, 5
"The Scissors"
Colin Lee Tucker, 11
"Fly, Fly, Butterfly"
V
Mia Vu, 9
"Behind the door"
W
Zoe Wang, 13
"Seven Ways to Look at Socks"
Hannah Mackenzie Wilder, 15
"Grease Fire"
Congratulations to the Young Pegasus 2022 Selected Poets!
Judges: Jay Brandon, Anthony "The Poet" Flores, Jane Focht-Hansen, Esperanza Garza-Danweber, Fernando Esteban Flores
A
Brenda Aguilar, 17
“I Am Not Yours”
Evelyn Jolene Albea, 11
“Shoelaces”
Will Anstead, 12
“Insomnia”
Sofia Avalos, 15
“Raspberry”
B
Nidhi Bathla, 13
“Sista”
Travis Bradley, 10
“Red"
C
Giovanna Gonzalez Canedo, 16
“Construction Site”
Michael Richard Cap, 11
“Sick”
Ariana Chaudhary, 13
“Untouched Dreams”
Axel Christiansen, 8 (with Leo Treszezamsky)
“Doodles”
Keira Catherine Clements, 15
“the wonderland aquarium”
William Adam Colburn, 5
“Sandcastles”
Annebelle Conklin, 14
“Adorable”
“Algebra Nonsense”
D
Shaumprovo Debnath, 14
“Swirls of Uncertainty, After Scream by Edward Munch”
Angel M. Diaz, 18
“Time to Think”
“Untitled”
Riley Do, 8
“Eraser”
F
Elizabeth Anne Farias, 16
“Eye Crawlers”
“Physical Mentality”
G
Luke Gonzales, 9
“Unstuck Petals”
Joey Gostkowski, 8
“Cows"
Ruby Elaine Griffith, 16
“Fireflies”
“Untitled”
H
Adrianna Hardin, 12
“Dance of the Pollinator”
Elbert Otto Hargesheimer, 10
“Captain chili dog"
Emily Harris, 17
“Disconnected Recollections”
Laurel Elizabeth Harrison, 15
“Devil, reborn”
Lea Marie Hartman, 17
“Ode to Starbucks”
Demi June Heller, 7
“A Little Baby Turtle”
Peyton A. Hernandez, 17
“Paradise Markdown”
“Solomon and the Baby”
Jace Robert Heuberger, 8
“Trees”
“Sun Petals”
K
William Kridel, 8
“Salmon”
L
Beatrice Langhorne, 13
“The Dark”
M
Deborah Mann, 15
“Bathroom”
Claire Elise McLaurin, 10
“Unsolvable Mystery”
Robert Melvin, 11
“Savagery comes with the living thing (Emily Dickinson mimicry)"
Abby Myers, 13
“I Think I Love You”
O
Max Adrian O’Donnell, 14
“The little king”
Kayla Elizabeth Oulch, 17
"Nightmares"
P
Khavir Patel, 7
“Rhino”
Nathaniel Lamont Perry, 15
“SUN”
Noelia Joy Plantenga, 14
“The Imagery Of Music”
Kathleen Chiara Pugh, 14
“Anti-Sonnet Sonnet”
Nathan James Pugh, 12
“Eruption”
R
Tim Austin Raaberg, 9
“Classroom”
Ella Rose Rainey, 12
“Bubbly Ramen”
Susan Maryam Ramos, 16
“Lazy”
Campbell James Renner, 9
“Fish Chase”
jeslyn grace rios, 16
“Between a Rock and a Hard Place”
S
Twara Sandeep, 16
“Eros/Cupid”
Devorah Brana Schaffer, 9
“Night Sky”
Katelyn Shosh, 10
“My Pet Worm”
Darsh Singh, 14
“Home”
Nivedita Somasundaram, 10
“Sea of Stories”
Violet Isabel Strayer, 9
“To Me”
Beatrice Sullivan, 12
“The Room”
T
Olivia Ortiz Tellez, 9
“Splash!!”
Gabriel McChesney Oliveira Martins TenEyck, 9
“I’m Tired of Being a Trout”
Leo Treszezamsky (with Axel Christiansen), 8
“Doodles”
U
Valerie Ulloa, 17
“Pessimist”
Kinsey Urbis, 8
“Wind”
W
Sarah Elizabeth Whiteley, 9
“My Big Brother”
Y
Nicholas Ylagan, 9
“Binder”
Lucy Belle Young, 17
“Envy”
“Cling”
Congratulations to the Young Pegasus 2023 Selected Poets!
Judges: Jay Brandon, Anthony "The Poet" Flores, Jane Focht-Hansen, San Antonio Poet Laureate Andrea "Vocab" Sanderson, Esperanza Garza-Danweber, Xelena Gonzáles
A
Evelyn Jolene Albea, 12
“King”
"Shoelaces"
Evalyn Adele Allardyce, 17
“Ballad of the Nuggy”
Daniel Galindo Alonso, 9
“The Dipiodoculus under the tree hates Barney”
Sofia Avalos, 16
“Artemis and Actaeon"
"Untitled - It went like this"
B
Nidhi Bathla, 14
“Revision”
Emma Baugh, 14
“Anxiety Island"
"Autumn Solitude"
Lale Ava Baykan, 15
“Forget-me-not"
"Untitled"
Fiona Bell, 9
“Flowers"
"I wish to fly"
Jeremiah Brown, 7
“Buzzing Around Me"
C
Leo O. Callanen, 17
“Southern Constellations"
Rhianna Courtney Carter, 17
“REBEL"
Axel Lee Christiansen, 10
“I'm tired of being a trombone"
Keira Catherine Clements, 16
“aposematic holes"
D
Lorin Catherine Day, 16
“4.28.22 SA Botanical Gardens (for Mom)”
Julia Anne Doski, 16
“Brown Leather Couches Sit in Silence”
Darko Dragunstinovis, 14
“Vengeful Malicious Vending Machine”
E
Lilian Eng, 10
“Clean your room!”
"I'm tired of being a table"
Matteo Escamilla, 8
“Untitled - Alligators eat meat”
"Untitled - Staplers are fanged dogs"
Nicole Evangelista, 16
"For Emily Skaja"
F
Vonnegut Frey, 16
“The Beauty of Decline”
G
Juniper Lynn Gerard, 8
“Baking”
Luke Gonzales, 10
“coquelicot”
H
Norma Jo Hargesheimer, 8
“Gymnast”
Laurel Elizabeth Harrison, 16
“I've Learned This Dance Before”
"Questions for God"
Arya Head, 10
“Art”
Elena Christina Hernandez, 15
“Greene”
Jace Heuberger, 9
“Big Red Cave”
"The Fish and the Snake"
J
Addison Jamal Jackson, 8
“I Am An Animal”
Savannah Ainslie Jackson, 9
“Coffee"
"Library"
Robert Edward Jaramillo, 10
“Blue Purple”
K
Siyona Kandala, 10
“A Poem”
"The Conjecture of a Sunset"
L
Alex Lawson, 8
“Beyonce and Goomy”
Jack Ledoux, 13
“Puddles”
Zander Michael Ledoux, 13
"The Cutting Board"
Ryan Vincent Lopez, 14
"Mama Margies"
Jelicity Amethyst Luna, 18
"strawberry & banana with a hint of minty citrus"
M
Vienna Mamidi, 13
"A Vase of Fake Flowers"
Leilani Penelope Martinez, 15
“Pablo protests”
Julia Elise McEvoy, 7
“Books"
"Raindrops PLOP!!"
Jasmine Melvin, 14
“Pass Your Pain to Me”
Mateo Cruz Moore, 7
“She's Mean”
Holly Morton, 7
“Thunderstorm”
"Wolf Goes Awoo"
Talia Marie Muniga, 8
“Homework”
"Shoes"
N
Miguel Nunez, 14
“Your Grace”
P
Neil Patel, 11
“Where I'm From”
Shalini Patel, 12
“Christmas Time?”
Santiago Peralta, 8
“My Dog”
Nathaniel Perry, 15
“Love Lost”
Riana Farrah Pliskin, 14
“Not Your Perfect Poem”
Elliot Pope, 15
“3 2 1 Blast Off!"
Kathleen Chiara Pugh, 15
“The Tragedy of the Tomb”
Q
Josiah Quintana, 14
“Tricoloured Trees a fall centered haiku”
R
Caroline Jane Rickels, 12
“Sky”
Katherine Elizabeth Rickels, 16
“Frozen Softly”
Breanna Rocha, 16
“autumn”
Lucia Electa Rodriguez, 14
“To Harbor”
S
Avraham Schaffer, 8
“Face”
Devorah Brana Schaffer, 9
“What is maroon?”
"Wish upon a star"
Veronika Shabashova, 9
“Depressed”
Adonis James Smith, 15
“Sun Set”
Audrey Smith, 17
“Kill Me Softly”
Joanna Sohn, 16
“Recreating a Childhood Snow Day"
Fiona Somarriba, 11
“The Noises that My Brother Makes”
Sara Spicer, 7
“I Love Summer”
Shloka Janhavi Subramanian, 9
"Seasons"
Anahi Alexis Suniga, 14
"15"
Anna Szalai, 15
"Tabby"
Peter Daniel Szalai, 10
"Cat"
"Pink"
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Aressana Patricia Tapia, 11
“Drifting Waters”
"Me, myself and I"
Olivia Ortiz Tellez, 10
“Untitled”
Eddie Tom, 7
“Puddles”
Vivian Tom, 9
“A fixed future”
"Book"
"Hippopotamus"
"To Fly"
Tomas Treszezamsky, 8
“Penguins Play Snow Soccer”
U
Kinsey Urbis, 9
"Lunch Monster"
V
Julian Joel Vasquez, 15
“The Brain”
W
Osler Leon White, 13
“The Balloon That Ran Away”
Isaac Whiteley, 13
“world of corn”
Cody Nicholas Wittwer, 10
“What is Black?”
Y
Ben Yuen, 8
“Off We Go!"
Congratulations to the Young Pegasus 2024 Selected Poets!
Judges: Jay Brandon, Anthony "The Poet" Flores, Jane Focht-Hansen, Esperanza Garza, Violeta Garza
A
Rainn Aplinshook, 15
“Sidewalk”
Dylan Calista Belen Apolinar, 9
“Milk Carton”
"Memory Tree"
Sophie Ann Augustyn, 11
“Ode to Pink”
B
Basil Baird, 11
“Rainy Days”
Ditipriya Basu, 8
“Friends"
"MEOW"
Nathan Richard Becker, 11
"The Wind"
Fiona Bell, 10
“The Beach"
"Below the Earth"
Penelope Veronica Bergmann, 10
“Photo Album"
"Morning Moments"
"Secrets"
Aimee Boubel, 14
“Making Time Pass By"
"Shakey Hands"
Ava Bratton, 17
“On the Road"
Isabel Loren Brown, 18
"Broken Locust"
Brianna Nelleice Byars, 17
“Abuelita's Casita"
C
Alex Miguel Castillo, 17
“The Rock in the Water”
Autumn Cirlos, 13
“Unfair”
Zoe Cordero, 7
“Meow meow”
D
Dagny Dalasta, 16
“Limbo”
"new beginnings"
Adeliz De Hoyos, 15
“Ode to the fallen”
Zev De'Angeli, 6
“I like to play soccer”
Angela Samantha Velazquez Diaz, 13
"Liars Believed"
Ardin Sophia Doublin, 11
“Whispers”
E
Aidan Amal Ekbal, 9
“Neon Green”
Ashton Escamilla, 9
“Untitled”
F
Glorianna Rose Felber, 12
“The Table”
Brigette Yadall Flores, 12
“I am a Dog”
G
Arami Garcia, 15
“I'd like to take a walk with you”
Kian Nahian Gomez, 9
“To, Two, and Too”
Alfredo Rockael Gonzales, 11
“School”
Luke Gonzales, 11
“Nine Innings”
Cristian Isaiah Gonzalez, 16
“10 Boys”
Carson Gordon, 6
“Parents Just Don't Understand”
Joey Gostkowski, 9
“Untitled”
KK Graham, 13
“Pastels”
Jasreen Grewal, 7
“The Dripping Rain”
Savreen Grewal, 9
“Clouds”
Symphony Love Gutierrez, 17
“Life Time”
H
Arya Bryn Head, 11
“It Feels Like I'm Falling”
Emma Frost Hernandez, 17
“Forget-Me-Not”
"Tortured Backs Upon Crossing the Rivers End"
James Christain Hernandez, 17
“Odi serpentes (I hate snakes)”
Marcela Hernandez, 17
“These Hands”
Jace Heuberger, 10
“Daily Life”
"Words"
I
Liam Henry Ireland, 12
“Samuel Golland”
J
Jazlyn Victory Jimenez, 11
“My Love”
Anaika John, 10
“The Mexican White Oak”
Robert William Johnson, 10
“Gold”
K
Victoria Katselnik, 14
“Quilt Pattern Trees”
William Hudson Kridel, 10
“Woods”
L
Beverly Lindberg, 17
“Sunrise Apprise”
Fox Lindsay, 7
"The Race"
Frank E. Lucci, 15
“1 second”
M
Jean Jeacques Manirakoze, 17
“Pickle Juice”
Ginger Eliza Marhev, 15
“Aphrodite”
Ella Rylie Martin, 8
“I Want To Be An Astronaut"
Jasmine Melvin, 15
“The Old Guitarist”
Joaquin Mezquiti, 10
“Family”
Farrah Rose Miranda, 10
“Squidward for Halloween”
Holly Joan Morton, 8
“River”
Isaac Anthony Munoz, 11
“Tafolla Middle School Poem”
Alani Simone Myers, 13
“Black Magic”
N
Arden Neiman, 13
“Alone”
"Sunsets"
O
Maleah Aiyana Olivarez, 16
“Can we stay here”
"Moving with blues"
P
Ian Pallan, 7
“Lava”
Tasneem Patnam, 7
“Buzzing Pencil Sharpener”
Nathaniel Perry, 16
“Unexpected Haiku”
"Arid"
"Untitled"
Madeleine Elaine Pugh, 10
“Pluto”
Q
Carlo Romeo Quintanilla, 17
“The Art of Racing”
R
Luna Fabiola Rawls, 13
“Ode to Slushy”
Santiago Reding-Ortiz, 17
"Lipton Mixed Berry Green Tea"
Amna Hyder Rizvi, 14
“Metropolitan”
Oliver Roberson, 14
“corvus, solus iterum”
Solum Robinson, 14
“I Hate Red”
Carter Rosenstiel, 8
“Dust”
Lydia Andariel Ross, 11
“ENDLESS ROMANCE”
S
Tracy Anne Schrader, 15
“(To You)”
Sammy Segura, 10
“Clock”
Thaman Selvakumar, 12
“That Glowing Titan”
Laila Jewel Soileau, 11
“Seven Ways of Looking at a Deer”
Elena Song, 11
“Kindling”
Zora Stivers, 10
“Cooking”
Kathryn Shay Strong, NA
"The Kingdom of Fernaculuskalu"
Shloka Janhavi Subramanian, 10
“Ode to Artemis”
T
Lauryn Bertha Tapia, 11
“My cat”
Samuel Evan Tapia, 10
“The Way Of Life”
Gabriel McChesney Olivera Martins TenEyck, 11
“Mid”
Vivian Tom, 10
“The stages of getting a puppy”
"My dog is dumb"
"My New Room"
Tomas Treszezamsky, 8
“Tacocat”
Sydney C. Turner, 17
"Eleven"
V
Israel Vasquez, 17
"A close game"
Isabella C. Vega, 10
“A Limerick: Pumpkin Roll”
W
Rachel Wang, 10
“My Cat, Finn”
Milam Weber, 8
“Birds in Flight”
"Monsters under the Bed"
Jude Harrison Wood, 16
“How to Waste Time”
Hannah Wright, 11
“Crocheted Blanket for me”
Coming soon, check back in April: Young Pegasus 2025 Selected Poets!
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