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Young Pegasus Poetry Competition

San Antonio's annual poetry contest for children and teens.

Congratulations Young Pegasus Poets (Alphatbetical Order by Last Name)

Congratulations to the Young Pegasus 2010 Selected Poets!

Judges: Jay Brandon, Rachel Christilles, Jane Focht-Hansen, Xelena González, Ginger Payne, James Rossignol, Bill Spinks


A

Caleb Ethan Allen, 12
"Doggy Disaster"


B

Ashton Ariel Ball, 18
"ONLY i"

Whitney Bennett, 17
"Slipping Into Madness"

Thomas Borowiec, 17
"Mordred"

Erica Bowlin, 8
"Home"


C

Sophia Alise Carranco, 10
"Recess"

Kevin M. Castaneda, 16
"The Epic of Balfour McGready"

Cara Comfort, 17
"When Unsure, I Think of You"

Ashley Cyerra Nichole Connell, 18
"My Love"
"I am a raven amongst a flock of pigeons"

Christina Michelle Contreras, 17
"Commander"
"The Murder of a Lover"

Alyssa Cooper, 12
"My Dear Sister"


D

Anna Dar, 17
"Bonding"

Darius Drevon Davis, 12
"My Dad"

Payton Down, 8
"Frogs"


E

Nathan Engel, 14
"Lake Crescent"
"Socrates (A Nonsense Poem)


F

Jennifer Farar, 16
"Butterflies"

Hannah Nicole Felts, 8
"I Am a Flowing Stream"

Shefali Loraine Ferguson, 13
"Earth's Milky Way"
"This Place That Speaks Peace"

Xavier David Fernandez, 10
"Ideas"
"Dreams"

Leigha Engel Forrest, 7
"Golden Wings"

Aubrey Anna Freckleton, 13
"I Wish the World Were Made of Sugar"


G

Cullen Guerrero, 9
"my fish"


H

Carl William Hileman, 11
"Rules for Georgie"

David Lincoln Howk, 10
"Imagine"

Marigold Mai Hudock, 16
"Movements"


I

Erin Evelyn Isler, 13
"One Windy Day"


J

Alan James Johnson, 11
"Education Rap"

Benjamin Byron Johnson, 5
"My Bears"

Theodore Drew Johnson, 8
"Frost Bite"


K

Ashley Caitlan Kaczmar, 15
"Papa"

Moran Scott Robert Kalka, 13
"Verfremdung"

Harneet Kaur, 18
"Sweet Love"

Maggie Kelleher, 10
"The Storm"

Sarah Paige Kerr, 18
"Falls Apart"

Audrey Kuykendall, 11
"Into Ashes Under Fire"


L

Seth Larson, 11
"The Schmale"

Helen M. Liljenwall, 14
"Pop Pop Yum Yum"

Zoe Lopez, 11
"I Am Bilingual/Yo Soy Bilingüe"


M

Bailey Anise Magee Nolte, 15
"Thank You Mister Whitman"

Julia Ai-Phuong Mansfield, 8
"Today I Will..."

Katherine Ai-Linh Mansfield, 11
"The Danger of Flying"

Wiley Martinez, 7
"My Missing Book"

Sofia Alexandra Miranda-Fred, 11
"The Butterfly"

Meghan Modrovsky, 17
"Earthbound Purgatory"


O

Lea O'Grady, 9
"The Wet Kittycat"

Enrique Ortega, 10
"Always"


P

Benjamin Parrish, 11
"A Hungry Man is a Black Hole"

Mason William Prevost, 10
"War of the Room"


R

J.M. Rains, 16
"Bahn Hill"
"Ode to a Brotherhood"

Sarah Faye Reeves, 14
"Astrid"
"Bleeding Light"
"Converging Lights"
"Kindergartner"
"Night"
"Ticks"
"When the World Ended"

Saskia Reford, 8
"My Dad the Dragon"
"Spiders"

Alma Rominger, 17
"Cold Nights Being a Teenager and Having Nothing Really Better To Do On a Saturday Night"

Luke Rowland, 11
"A Book"


S

Natalie Scheifele, 10
"Squash"

Lyle Seeligson, 11
"The Moon"

Tatiana Sigg, 7
"My Two Dogs"

Sloane Emory Spriester, 4
"Whistling"

Savannah Grace Stutevoss, 8
"Dioses Griegos"
"La Linterna"
"Mis Zapatos Flamencos"

Hannah Bethany Sullivan, 12
"Dad, I love you, please come home"


T

Adair Kathleen Trachta-Magruder, 10
"The Ocean"

Alejandra Gabrielle Trigoso, 17
"Fried Green Tomatoes"
"no such thing as rubbish"


V

Jorge A. Valdes, 15
"I Am From"


W

Rachel Marie Walker, 7
"I Had a Little Lion"

Christina Maria Wallace, 11
"A World of Opposites"

Vianney Marie Wallace, 9
"My Journey"
"The W"

Congratulations to the Young Pegasus 2011 Selected Poets!

Judges: Glor Armmer, Jay Brandon, Fernando Flores, Jane Focht-Hansen, Xelena González, Laurie Ann Guerrera, James Rossignol


A

Ally Weil Atwell, 7
"Rain Falls from Sugar"


B

Harvey Lois Bailey, 11
"Math Test"

Luke Bailey, 7
"The Zeus Caboose"

Dalton Banks, 13
"The Wild in Me"

George West Bodden, Jr., 13
"The Deer"


C

Caleb Donnell Cannon, 8
"Christmas"

Kevin M. Castaneda, 17
"The Unwritten Poem"
"Autumnal"

Sadie Danielle Cavazos, 10
"Encounter"

Austin Bech Chatillon-Reed, 17
"Bodies That Bloom"

Nia Clements, 10
"Overly Exaggerated Woman"

Marisol Isabel Cortez, 9
"Mexico"

Amanda Nicole Coyle, 18
"A Genuine Heap of Grass"

Alexus Cuellar, 9
"A Skunk's Poem"


D

Katherine L. Dobson, 10
"The Roaches From Nacogdoches"

Celeste Marie Duron, 11
"Brown Bears"


E

Clare Eastman, 7
"Under the Sea"

Christopher David Eckart, 10
"Ode to Bacon"

Campbell Erwin, 11
"My Good Old Wheels"


F

Gabriel Fernandez, 11
"The Donkey of Fear!"

Katherine Ashely Fisher, 10
"I, the blue puddle"

Daisy Flores, 15
"Not My Lie to Tell"


G

Liana Meriela Gallyoun-Arroyo, 11
"Stars" 

Alexandra M. Garza, 13
"The Apple's Lover"

Alexander Eli Gonzales, 10
"Dancing to the Beat"

Elliot Gorokhovsky, 11
"Where I'm From"

Miranda Nicole Gutierrez, 17
"Courier New's First Lipstick Queen"


H

Thomas Hart, 11
"The Silver Nickel"

Nicol Hurst, 11
"The Space-In-Between"
"Undone"


J

Benjamin Byron Johnson, 6
"The Blue Mouse"


K

Erin Kelley, 17
"Graduation"

Kathryn Marie Kilborn, 12
"Dreams"


L

Seth Larson, 12
"Wonderland"

Ian Alexander Lopez, 17
"A Particularly Intriguing Proof"
"American Gothic: Mrs. Lamentation"


M

Bailey Anise Magee Nolte, 16
"Lost and an Inconvenience"

Katherine Ai-Linh Mansfield, 12
"He Says, She Says"
"I Am From..."

Arturo M. Martinez, 12
"Seventh Grade"

Marcus Gabriel Martinez, 14
"Pizza Oven"
"Bitter Honesty, and Sweet Little Lies"

Wiley Martinez, 8
"The Monster"

Connor Douglas McLaughlin, 12
"The Dance of the Seasons"

Darian Taylor Miera, 16
"Cherry Pie"

Reginald Arnez Miller, 12
"I Am Not a Mule"


N

Puneet Sandeep Nayyar, 9
"The Turtle"


O

Devin O'Toole, 6
"Lego"


P

Jordan Potts, 14
"Untitled - I am from"

Eric Matthew Prochnow, 16
"Love Changed Me"


R

Sarah Faye Reeves, 15
"Discord, Unresolved"
"Demanding"
"Undertow"


S

Lillian Rose Sanchez, 13
"My Handwriting"

Mia Santiago, 11
"Haiku"

Paris Marguerite, 10
"Calm"

Henry Dial Snow, 11
"My Tree"

Nissa Nicole St. Clair, 18
"Impossible Tasks"

Savannah Grace Stutevoss, 9
"La Sinfonía / The Symphony"


T

Brooke Nicole Taylor, 16
"He Nods Hello"
"Damn Those Motivational Posters"

Wilson Reeve Taylor, 13
"A Well-Used Glove"

MaryAnne Torrence, 13
"Untouchable Me"

Patricia Torres, 17
"Blind-Fold"


V

Stephanie Velasquez, 14
"Hidden"
"This Old Door"


W

Kephas Kolbe Wallace, 8
"My Backyard"

Vianney Marie Wallace, 10
"A King, A Queen and a Fly"
"Precious Cargo"

Marshall K. Webb, 13
"A Gate in My Head"


Z

Raeann Lee Zuniga, 15
"Grandpa Prietro"

Congratulations to the Young Pegasus 2012 Selected Poets!

Judges: Jay Brandon, Fernando Flores, Jane Focht-Hansen, Laurie Ann Guerrera, Xelena González, Nicole Provencher, James Rossignol


A

JohnPaul Fernando Aguilar, 15
"Thought"

Evalyn Adele Allardyce, 5
"Dog Tale"


B

Lucas William Brock, 16
"Alone With Strange Words"

Rebekka Broyles, 12
"School is Uncool"

Isabel Lucille Bynum, 11
"Daze"


C

Rebecca Soledad Carrillo, 10
"This is a Bubbleian"

Caroline Parker Cassidy, 17
"Pretty Pink Pointes"

William Jehan Chanmugam, 10
"Winter"


D

Katherine L. Dobson, 11
"Two Faces"


E

Clare Artemisia Eastman, 8
"The Garden"

Nathan Engel, 16
"upon introspection of a photograph"
"salem's waltz"

Avery Konrad Eugster, 10
"Three Headed Donut Man"


F

Jeremy Fitch, 18
"The Average Bean"

Keegan Francis Flaherty, 11
"Ode to Fries"

Gracyn Laura Freiling, 10
"Mrs. Smith"


G

Maqui Gaona, 18
"Aquatic Whisper"

Cadianna Rose Garcia, 17
"Mirame"

Soukup Gregory, 10
"Moon"


H

Anne Kanako Hadley, 17
"Wings"

Michaela Harley, 10
"My 5 senses"

Ariana Nicole Hernandez, 16
"The Real Seven Wonders of the World"

Cayla Celeste Hernandez, 9
"river"

Chloe Lynn Hohman, 14
"Mi Amor"


J

Benjamin Byron Johnson, 7
"What do you think of Mondays?"

Mikayla Nichelle Johnson, 11
"Sugary Sweets"


K

Ashley Kate Kuvet, 18
"With Dirt on Our Cheeks"


L

Seth Larson, 13
"Charles Dickens Rap"
"Pie"
"You Really Steam my Broccoli"

Susi Lopera, 18
"Muted Melodies"


M

Julia Ai-Phuong Mansfield, 10
"The Moon Festival"

Katherine Ai-Linh Mansfield
"All I've Got"
"Heritage"
"Leaving Means Forgetting"
"In-Between"
"Quietude"

Felice Martinez, 6
"My Teacher"
"iSpy Despair"

Marcus Gabriel Martinez, 15
"Vaudeville Goddess"

McDonald Willa, 17
"bo's fairytale"

Elise Miller, 15
"Fillet 'o' Fish"

Sofia A. Miranda-Fred, 14
"Shadow Dreams"

Eliana Grace Moody, 12
"We come in peace"


N

Cade Lanham Napier, 11
"The Crumb"


R

Kristen Teresa Rangel, 12
"Where I Belong"

Sarah Faye Reeves, 16
"afternoon bike ride"
"aubade"
"Mutability"

Felixx Rio, 17
"Let me pass easy"

Amanda Rothbauer, 16
"Maroon"


S

Shelby Salazar, 11
"Wind"

Anna Stell, 17
"Juice Box"


T

Campbell Taylor, 6
"Día y Noche / Day and Night"


V

Michaela K. Vail, 9
"Dolphins"
"The Life of a Domesticated Cat"

Anastacia Maria Valdespino, 16
"Old Things"
"Oxygen Surrenders"
"Return to Ocean"
"Salty Conversations"


W

Hannah Kai Walker, 15
"Sunlight Boy"

Christina Marie Wallace, 13
"The Stoy of Katy McSan"

Vianney Marie Wallace, 11
"Be Quiet Please!"
"Writer's Block"

Isabelle Grace Warrington, 9
"Twilight"

Eden Wyker, 12
"No Rainy Days"


Y

Michael Ybarra, 10
"Day in the Moon Bounce"

Joselen Jade Tim, 8
"Hey and Hick's Vacation"

Jada Cimone Young, 9
"Bedtime stories"


Z

Raeann Zuniga, 16
"Green Sunflower Eyes"

Congratulations to the Young Pegasus 2013 Selected Poets!

Judges: Brooke Ballard, Jay Brandon, Anthony Flores, Fernando Flores, Jane Focht-Hansen, Gonzáles, James Rossignol


A

Ashley Ano, 12
"Birds"

Astrid Maybelle Armstrong, 13
"The First Day of School"


B

Ella Behnke, 11
"When the Wind Blows..."

Ariana T. Bernal, 7
"Choco"


C

Brandi Carnes, 17
"The Universe, a Child"

Xavier Christian Castilo, 5
"My Backyard"

Marie Diane Comeau, 13
"Romance"

Marisol Isabel Cortez, 11
"Mi Abuelito/My Grandpa"

S.J. Countryman, 14
"Indians and Antlers"


D

Charlene E. Davatos, 12
"Dancing Buds"

Michelle Davila, 7
"Bailando / Dancing"

Katrina Richelle Dela Cruz, 18
"Gabriel"

Andres Noe De la Garza, 10
"Hug"

Katherine L. Dobson, 12
"Eternity"


E

Jessica Engel, 9
"How The Earth Expresses Itself"


F

Kennedy Feuge, 9
"Mi Caja de Tesoros / My Treasure Box"

Katie Fleming, 10
"The Monster in 328"

Alice Frederick, 17
"Falling Blue"
"The Dead Bride's Photography"

Gracyn Laura Freiling, 11
"Little Liza McElroy"
"Under My Bed"


G

Piper Gourley, 13
"What I know"

Jenna Gregory, 6
"Meta- Morphosis"


H

Savannah Hill, 18
"Tempt Me, Tribute to The Tempest by Shakespeare"

William Hosey, 10
"Lightning"


J

Benjamin Byron Johnson, 8
"Angry Birds in the World"


K

Hana Kapasi, 16
"Congress' Lines"


M

Katherine Ai-Linh Mansfield, 14
"Love Vs. Hate, a Sonnet"
"Rain Boots"
"They Don't Know, Do They?"
"To All Those at the Spelling Bee"
"White Dress"

Felice Martinez, 7
"The Stray"
"Eight Stitches"

Nicole Marie McCormick, 11
"Old Grey Cat"

Sarah Elise McLean, 12
"Smearing The Night Sky"

Darian Taylor Miera, 18
"Monuments of Dance"
"Matching Tattoos"


N

Avery Elizabeth Napier, 9
"Dear Mrs. Booger"

Ana Navarro, 17
"Backwards or Forwards"


O

Xochitl Ortiz, 14
"Hold On To Me"


P

Arianna Katerina Pachecano, 11
"The "A" Train"

Abigail Parker, 11
"Winter"

Michaela Perez, 14
"Two Prepositional Poems"


Q

Lilah Kalista Qubrosi, 13
"Landscape"

Daniel Quintero, 16
"I have lost my sense of sight"
"T.J. and the Closet Angels"
"smoke signals"


R

Sarah Faye Reeves, 17
"Even gravity is a kind of desire"

Rick Capone Rejino, 17
"Tribute to Marilyn Monroe & Otep Shamaya"

Holly Prange Rice, 16
"Red Dirt"

Amanda Rothbauer, 17
"The Hearse"

Sydney Royer, 17
"Astronomy Lessons"


S

Jaida Essence Scott, 17
"Lords of the Kitchen Floor"

Isaac Alexander Silva, 11
"The Tree"

Savannah G. Stutevoss, 11
"El Hermoso Verano / The Beautiful Summer"

Mike L. Suarez, 10
"Old Blender"


T

Hannah Taylor, 11
"How Words Got Here"

Daniel Levente Terényi, 11
"The Grave"
"To Malala Yousafzai"


V

Michaela Vail, 10
"As I Sit by the Kumquat Tree"
"Haiku #3"
"Haiku #4"

Anastacia Maria Valdespino, 17
"The Armadillo Who Ate My Poem"
"Unravel"

Jennifer Isabel Vela, 16
"Steady"


W

Kephas Kolbe Wallace, 10
"The Last Drop"

Vianney Marie Wallace, 12
"The Point of Pigs"


Z

Avery Marie Zapata, 11
"The Weather of Our Life"

Congratulations to the Young Pegasus 2014 Selected Poets!

Judges: Jay Brandon, Anthony Flores, Fernando Flores, Jane Focht-Hansen, Kalia Glover, Xelena Gonzáles, James Rossignol


A

Lily Aguillon, 8
"Coats"
"My pet Myskito"

Astrid Maybelle Armstrong, 13
"Came From Nothing"


B

Emma Kalyani Bebarta, 11
"A Blade of Grass"


C

Maya Olivia Cabrera, 8
"Mom, Dad, Paloma, and Me."

Brandi Carnes, 18
"Body Snatcher"

Caleb Alexander Carrillo, 7
"Bugs Bugs"
"School"

Skylar Paige Centeno, 13
"Untitled - He brings beauty"

Dominique Lydia Le-rue Coleman, 14
"Just a Little Feeling"

Marie Diane Comeau, 14
"Steel Lives On"


D

Andrea Day, 14
"Spirits"

Malary Paige Deike, 15
"Oxygen"

Alfredo Aydn Duenez, 8
"The Song of Birds"


E

Campbell James Erwin, 13
"Like Dying in a Freezer"


F

Annelise Mixon Flores, 14
"Black Vases"
"Cancer"

Alexandria Evelina Flynn, 8
"School in Nature"

Paisley Franco, 12
"The Treesitters"

Gracyn Laura Freiling, 12
"Jon Gregory"

Laura French, 10
"Battle"


G

Agatha Marie Gibson, 9
"A Knife"

Travis Gibson, 11
"The City"

Piper K. Gourley, 14
"Passion"

Natalie Danielle Gutierrez, 7
"Sleepovers"

Emma Sophia Guy-Bisehl, 11
"Cloudy Skies"


H

Elyza Jo Halverson, 6
"Poems"

Thomas Austin Hart, 14
"The Spirits of Winter"

Natalie Danielle Hoffner, 11
"Life & Origami"


I

Audrey Nicole Ibarra, 9
"Dim Jack-O-Lantern"


K

Hana Kapasi, 17
"H two O"

Jackson Levi Karney, 6
"My Friend Has Gone Away"

Dylan Harley Ketron, 17
"tindaloo"


L

Jacob Allen Lee, 8 
"Día de los muertos / Day of the Dead"


M

Katherine Mansfield, 15
"butterflies"
"Ode to the Elastic Hairband"
"Leaves From a Vine"
"Empty-Handed"
"Practicing Pretty"
"Who Blue Belongs To"

Madelyn Elise McCrary, 11
"Ode to Auden"


N

Elizabeth Shiwen Nelson, 9
"Birds of Words"

Amaleah Newton, 10
"A Week of Disgrace"
"The Library"


O

Samantha Marie Ojeda, 12
"My Flower"


P

Abby Thyra Parker, 12
"Vanished"

Sylvia Mona Pedraza, 12
"Love"

Emily Nicole Powell, 12
"Inside and Out"


Q

Asier Quiroga, 10
"The Greedy Mouse"


R

Sarah Faye Reeves, 18
"a letter from my bed"
"Muse"
"Untitled - february"

Holly Prange Rice, 17
"Sunshine"

Sophia Rios, 11
"Angry Breakfast"


S

Erik John Sangiovanni, 6
"Pickles"

Hazel Marie Spedding, 8
"Untitled - Armadillo nose"

Erica Stocker, 11
"Dear Old Mrs. Sue"
"Me Llamo San Antonio"


T

Kai Tkachuk, 7
"Acute/acrostic/poem/"
"Thumb of horror/acrostic poem"
"Smog"


V

Izumi Vazquez, 10
"Clumsy Robbie"
"Mocker the Soccer Lover"

Joshua Enrique Villegas, 17
"Gravity"


W

Sydney Kaye Watt, 18
"Insurrection of the Bobby Pins"
"Firefly's Lament"

Congratulations to the Young Pegasus 2015 Selected Poets!

Judges: Anthony Flores, Fernando Flores, Jane Focht-Hansen, Ezperanza Garza-Danweber, Kalia Glover, Xelena González, James Rossignol


A

Martin Arcos, 6
"Can I"


B

Owen Bebarta, 7
"The Animal in Me"

Lucas Charles Bordelon, 7
"O the Seagulls"

Evan Brown, 15
"Opera"

Kailey Nicole Busby, 9
"60 Seconds of Sanity"


C

Rebecca Soledad Carrillo, 13
"The Extravagance of the World"

Marie Comeau, 15
"Dentistry"
"Her Eyes"
"March"
"Past-Tense Poets"
"Plastic Halloween"
"Time to Kill"


D

Andres DelaGarza, 12
"Stormy Night"

Alora Dickinson, 7
"Sprinkles"

Macy Ruth Drew, 14
"A Heart of Gold"

Alison Renée Dunn, 9
"Night"


F

Daphne Ford, 6
"4th of July"


G

Elise Galvan, 9
"Fall"
"Rain's Beautiful Tricks"

Pedro Isaias Garcia, 16
"Out of this World"

Pablo Gonzalez, 9
"Greek Gods"

Branimir Rosco Gore, 9
"Night"

Edie Krakow Gray, 11
"The Throne Between The Flags"


H

Sarah Ana Henriquez, 16
"De Rege: Canto III"
"De Rege: Canto IV"

Anna Hyslop, 10
"Plane Waves"


K

Hannah Khayyal, 11
"Silent as the Moon"


M

Thomas Orion Makusky, 12
"In the Midst of the Battleground"

Katherine Mansfield, 16
"Evolution"
"From Here on the Ground"
"From Orpheus' Lyre to Eurydice"
"Natural Disaster"
"The Shipbuilder's Daughter"

Lyda Rose Martin, 10
"How to Fly"

Haley Elizabeth Muse, 14
"Lean"


N

Ava Nerio, 13
"My New Tea Set or Dona Maria"


O

Grace Kathryn Ogden, 10
"Beward"

William Nohr Ostergaard, 9
"Civil War"


P

Meenu Prasanth, 10
"Let Evil Come"


R

Kate Elizabeth Rickels, 8
"My Dream"


S

Athena Sánchez, 13
"Feelings"

Kaleigh Elizabeth Santillanes, 9
"My Watermelon"

Ruby Shaw, 7
"On a Walk"

Niraj Om Srivastava, 8
"Snow"


V

Kiki Joely Vasquez, 14
"Poets"


W

Lila Evelyn Maria Williams, 14
"Anti-Ode to Moths"


X

Michelle Xiao, 16
"The End of Innocence"

Congratulations to the Young Pegasus 2016 Selected Poets!

Judges: Erica DelaRosa, Anthony Flores, Fernando Flores, Jane Focht-Hansen, Esperanza Garza-Danweber, Kalia Glover, James Rossignol


A

Maya Allen, 10
"Life"

Chelsea Alvarez, 14
"Rain"

Elaina Rae Archinal, 8
"Cupcakes"

Emmie August, 8
"What Red Could Be?"


B

Silas Loring Bartlett, 8
"The Animal in Me"

Tom Andrew Bugg, 18
"Lunchtime Beat"

Parker Ellie Burch, 7
"The Monkey"


C

Angelina Dubelsa Casiano, 14
"charcoal passion"
"Trickle Down Economics"
"Yes Mother"

Stella Rose Ciaravino, 10
"Rainstorm"

Yolanda Cisneros, 11
"You Be Glad You Have Eyes on Your Face?"

Dominique Lydia Coleman, 16
"Paper Figures"

Marie Comeau, 16
"Jealousy: A Spoken-Word Poem"
"Novice"
"Vintage (Broken Record)"

Sarah Cross, 10
"Sadness"
"Synesthesia"
"Tree"


D

Angel De La Rosa, 8
"Los Libros / Books"


E

Denise J. Emerson, 16
"The Flood"


F

Leigha Engel Forrest, 13
"Question"
"Smudge"
"The Fly"
"The Sky's Sorrow"


G

Elise Galvan, 10
"Cloud for My Pillow"

Branimir Rosco Gore, 10
"The Sand Dune"


H

Elyza Halverson, 9
"My Disco Pickle"

Sarah Ana Henriquez, 17
"Lights Out"


J

Benjamin Byron Johnson, 11
"Anaconda Joe and Potato Habado"
"CRASH! BASH!"
"Russ the Happy Bus"


K

Ishan Kanaskar, 9
"Geyser"


L

Alexander Lambert, 9
"The Stench"


M

Katherine Mansfield, 17
"Compartmentalize"
"Dead Weight"
"Old Man Winter"
"The Week Without Water"
"We"

Ingrid Mayer, 14
"Welcome to Society"

Alexandra Dawn McCoy, 17
"A Wild Thing"

Saphire Rain Ebony Mendez, 16
"The Woes of War"

Marlee Metzger, 9
"My Grandma"

Megdalena Munoz, 9
"INK"


N

Ava Nerio, 14
"The Ode to the Laureate"


P

Jackie Claire Pavlovsky, 14
"Three Little Dots"


R

Reyes Dillon, 14
"Dragons"
"Purposeless"

Esperanza Riedl, 6
"Feathers"

Andrea Gisel Rivas, 15
"Television Terror"

Aliya Rodriguez, 6
"Speak Softly"


S

Tsubaki Sohocki, 8
"There Is Another Country In Space"

Olivia Stupka, 8
"Nature"

Omarion Josiha Su, 8
"Monsters Monsters Everywhere"


W

Aria Walker, 10
"Chairs"

Kayla Ann Wilson, 18
"Ebony"

Congratulations to the Young Pegasus 2017 Selected Poets!

Judges: Jay Brandon, Erica DeLaRosa, Anthony Flores, Fernando Flores, Esperanza Garza-Danweber, Jane Focht Hanson, James Rossingol


A

Piper Shalom Abrigo, 17
"Rolling Film"

Maya Allen, 11
"Bookshelves"


B

Siri Borra, 8
"The USA"


C

Alessandro Antonio Castagnini, 8
"Sick"

Michaela Christy, 12
"Fire"

Abby Chung, 11
"Night Hike"

Stella Rose Ciaravino, 11
"I Like a Lot of Things"

Marie Comeau, 17
"Agnes (Enough)"
"Cheater"
"Fireflies"
"Laughter and Goodbyes (Inspired by Sarah Faye Reeves)"

Anabelle Sofia Cross, 9
"School and Nature"


D

Shaumprovo Debnath, 8
"Animal in Me"

John Michael Dougherty, 12
"Ode to my Toes"


F

Kaitlyn Fleming, 14
"In Lieu of Support"

Octavio Aviv Flores-Chasnoff, 10
"Words"

Leigha Engel Forrest, 14
"Breaking the Stars"
"Gods of the Sky"
"The Ugly Firefly"
"Una Cultura"


G

Marissa Garza, 11
"Tranquil Beach"

Samantha Marie Gonzales, 10
"Streams and Human Being"

José Edgardo Guardiola, 17
"Ama y Apa"


H

Adelaide Mae Helgeson, 7
"Picky"
"The Blue Moo Zoo"

Anna Hurd, 10
"Fog"


J

Ryan Thomas Jacob, 14
"Procrastination"


K

Olivia Kane, 17
"Advice for my Children (for a 17-year old)"
"In Room 435"

Julian Knapp, 8
"Middle of Chaos"


M

Niema Lisette Maes, 8
"The Man On The Beach"

Juliana Sol Martinz, 15
"A Lie That Daddy Told Me"
"Cupid"
"La Guerra: The War"

Jayden Joseph McFarland, 9
"The Lion and The Tiger:


N

Sophia Nelson, 10
"The Black and White Days"
"Night's Melody"

Ava Nerio, 15
"A Mathematic Lament"


O

William Ogle, 10
"Seinfeld Inspired Limerick"


P

Abigail Parker, 15
"The Candle"
"The Mirage"

Gabriella Marie Paul, 13
"Ode to a Doughnut"

Jackie Claire Pavlovsky, 15
"Pretty Fingers"

Marina Pedraza, 13
"Flowers and a Conch Shell"

Landon Pratt, 8
"The Tall Man"

Nathan James Pugh, 7
"The Story of Me"


R

Chloe Jewel Rehkopf, 16
"Disney Girl"

Isabella Magarita Rocha, 10
"For the Jabberwock"
"Up and Down the Streets in Mexico"

Sophie Elizabeth Rose, 17
"Nothing is Wrong"


S

Kaleigh Elizabeth Santillanes, 11
"Secrets"

Hazel Marie Spedding, 11
"The Honey Badger"

Tatum Simone Spriester, 14
"Fallen Cones"

Johnny Strickland, 10
"Yum!"


T

Tony Tian, 10
"Winter Winds"

Helen Trottmann, 10
"The Nightmare"


W

Charlie Weiner, 10
"Rolling a Pin on a Rampage"

Callum Westwood, 11
"Pillow Fight"

 

Congratulations to the Young Pegasus 2018 Selected Poets!

Judges: Erica DelaRosa, Anthony Flores, Fernando Flores, Jane Focht-Hansen, Esperanza Garza-Danweber, James Rossignol


A

Daniel Abney, 11
"My Spooky (Not Really) Halloween Poem"


B

Christian Orion Banda, 10
"The Life of a Pencil"

Silas Loring Bartlett, 11
"Poem Assignment: A Limerick"

Rashmi Rani Basu, 10
"Earnest Queries"
"Transcendence"

Ella Best, 14
"Overripe"

Sebastian Bishop, 9
"My Dog Zone"

Seth Borslien, 10
"Age"

Fiona Briggs, 8
"Sydney Annette Sally McFleeth Just Would Not Brush Her Teeth"

Isabel Lucille Bynum, 17
"Atlas"


C

Brenna Rose Calhoun, 11
"Time Ticking By"

Lilliana Cardona, 7
"Kitten"

Shreya Chaudhary, 13
"If Winter's Breadth Kisses Thy Perfect Lips"

Angela Nicole Cohen, 11
"The Son of the Sea"

Elisabeth Jocelyn Crowley, 8
"Poems"


D

Andres De la Garza, 15
"A New Trampoline"
"The Ride"
"Tweet"


E

Bernabe Esquivel, 9
"Halloween"


F

Kaitlyn Min-Xia Fleming, 15
"Prevention"
"The Human Condition"

Leigha Engel Forrest, 15
"Edges"
"Portrait of the Woman Smoking a Cigarette in an Arby's Parking Lot"

Reuben Frey, 8
"Diana's Fox"


G

Ian Garza, 10
"Fast Food"

Devon L. Garza, 17
"A Letter to My Lil' Brother"

Aarav Gedala, 10
"Emotions"

Luciana Barragán Goetz, 6
"My Name"

Ethan Henry Green, 14
"Space Travel"


H

Leena Marie Hall, 16
"Hourglass"

Evan Hamaoka, 11
"Alien Invasion"

Ciarenn Hollis, 14
"Looking Through a Marble"


J

Seva Joshi, 12
"Nature"


K

Olivia Kane, 18
"Thoughts from a Believer"

Adelaide Kreidel, 10
"The Pine Woods in Wimberly, Texas"

Michael Kressbach, 13
"Whataburger"


L

Julia Landes, 11
"A Winter Cat Nap"

Shannon Langas, 13
"Never Too Young"

Adrian Lee, 8
"How the Crab Ruined My Vacation"

Blackstone Loring, 9
"Scissors"


M

Wiley Martinez, 15
"Untitled Poem with Fourteen Lines"

D'Nessa McDaniel, 18
"When i Speak"


N

Bella Noriega, 11
"Haikus"

Rowan Norris, 10
"Spanish Spelling Bee Gloom"


P

Kathleen Nichole Pauley, 9
"America"

Jackie Pavlovsky, 16
"Broken"

Catie Poneck, 18
"Love Potion"

Nathan James Pugh, 8
"Stars, Stars"


R

Sarah Robinson, 9
"The Letter E"


S

Athena Sanchez, 16
"Keep Watching"

Corbin Tyler Solt, 18
"A Government's World"

Nivedita Somasundaram, 6
"Rain"

Hazel Spedding, 12
"A Few Words About Hope"


T

Antonio Trivizo, 8
"I pad"


W

Aria Walker, 12
"Cliché"

Charlie Weiner, 11
"The Volcano (Sijo Poem)

Allison Ann Wu, 14
"The Poem's Dance"

Congratulations to the Young Pegasus 2019 Selected Poets!

Judges: Jay Brandon, Anthony Flores, Fernando Flores, Jane Focht-Hansen, Esperanza Garza-Danweber, Xelena Gonzalez, James Rossignol


A

Annie Juliette Alvarado, 8
"The Best Buy Trip"
"What I don't like about thanksgiving (a turkey's perspective)"


B

Rema M Bhat, 17
"cold air on hot skin"
"i blink too hard"

Vanessa "Mori" Blanco, 18
"La Catrina"

Isabel Lucille Bynum, 18
"Inelastic"
"land of bleached bones"
"Roses"
"Turtled"


C

Faith Kaitlin Carrillo, 9
"Baby Sister"

Adan Castro, 10
"The Grumpy Old Man"

Josiah Cavazos, 9
"Emotions"

Shreya Chaudhary, 14
"The Roman Circus"

Michaela Christy, 14
"In A Year"

Keira Clements, 12
"This Thread on the Cusp of Your Hands"

Eleanor Cutright, 12
"Untitled"


D

Danielle Grace De Leon, 14
"i am a universe"

Scarlett Lynn Mulholland Dean, 9
"Charles Darwin"

Abigail Diaz, 17
"A POEM IN WHICH THE SUN SHINES HARDER THAN EVER"
"motion"

Zachary Ryan Durham, 18
"French Partisan in a Cistern"
"Rungs, Or How It Sucks To Be An Old Man With Cerebral Palsy at Eighteen."


E

Bernabe Esquivel, 11
"Soccer"


F

Mara Flores, 12
"Ode to Ice Cream"

Leigha Engel Forrest, 16
"How to Break my Heart"
"Margot"
"Muse"
"Pantheon"
"Vernacular Ripped from the Bleeding Hearts of Once-Mother-Tongues"
"We, as Humanity, on the Final Ship"


G

Aarav Gedala, 11
"The problem with nursery rhymes"
"Treats"
"Who Knew"

Victoria Nicole Godkin, 9
"Shadows"

Ella Sofia Gonzalez, 9
"Pretty Pink"


H

Sophia Hall, 11
"A Ghostly Gumbo"

Joseph "Mick" Harris, 10
"Labor Day"

Mia Alexis Hernandez, 11
"The Uncle"

Sloane Holdridge, 8
"At the Zoo"

Claire Huntsman, 10
"Allergies"


J

Ava Jimenez, 10
"My Pencil"

Alicia Johnson, 10
"The Box Factory"


K

Ila Arya Kanaskar, 8
"The tiger in the night"

Adelaide Vella Kreidel, 11
"Algebra"

Joey Kremer, 10
"This is Sad"


L

Joelle Marie Lamaie, 14
"The Suffocating Star - The Story of a Girl with Asthma"

Olivia Choucair Lanford, 14
"Bleached beached tanned bands"
"Little Rocking Chair"

Genesis Alejandra Linares, 16
"¡Es ilógico! (It's Illogical)"
"Un mundo compartido (A Shared World)"

Harini Logan, 10
"A Ghostly World"


M

Sophia Markey, 17
"Sunfish"

Annia Gimeno Marko, 11
"My Frog"

Madeleine McCabe, 7
"Monkeys"

Victoria Elysse Menendez, 16
"girls/girls/boys"

Bella Grace Meza, 11
"Home Sweet Home"

C. Rudrick Monteith, 17
"Flying the Kite in the Park"


N

David N. Nagy, 8
"Stars"

Eleanor R. Nagy, 11
"Poem on the Sting of a Jellyfish: A Reflection on Slight Pain"

anthony patrick naumann, 13
"Winnie's sticky situation"

Ava Nerio, 17
"Wreaking Havoc"

Avalouisa Sophia Newman-Caro, 15
"My Childhood Hands...er Heart"
"The Time I Almost Chopped My Dreads: An Abecedarian Poem"


P

Jackie Claire Pavlovsky, 17
"The Difference"

Karolyn Ann Pierce, 9
"The Sea"

D'Koven Dominic Pizarro, 18
"The Three Politicians"


R

Joseph Ramon, 14
"Paper cuts"

Genesis Diaz Reyna, 10
"Bomberos"


S

Kaleigh Elizabeth Santillanes, 13
"How the Harbor Turned to Tea written in ABCs"
"The Day I Sold Lemonade"
"Ode to the Tortilla Chip"

Anish Sehgal, 11
"The Dazzling Sun"

Mridula Shan, 15
"Cornflakes in Chennai"

Christopher Daniel Shauver, 12
"Winter Morbidity"

Lottie Sherwood, 12
"Papa"

Corrina Caitlyn Smith, 11
"A Life of Paper"

Hazel Marie Spedding, 13
"recipe for sorrow"

Ethan Stone, 7
"Stones"


T

Maddie Katherine Toland, 13
"Five directions to my house"

Jiselle Torres, 11
"Social Media"

Sofi Trevino, 11
"Dark Horse"


V

Michael Albert Velasquez, 13
"All Well Spent (The Vending Machine)


W

Michael Daniel Weiner, 12
"Pigeons"

Jack Whittington, 11
"Superman"


Z

Haley Kay Zimmerman, 16
"Fashion"
"Subway Signs"
"To the Treehouse"