Young Pegasus Poetry Competition

Congratulations to the Young Pegasus 1991 Selected Poets!

Judges: Ray Gonzales, William Guardia, Olga Samples Davis, Amy Freeman Lee, Barbara Stanush, Joan Mellard, Lois White

A

Jennifer Lee Allen, 17
"Bolt"
"Scars (2)"

B

Anne Baird, 9
"The Evergreen"

Elizabeth Renee Bankes, 17
"The Muse"

Jesus Barrientos, 10
"I Am a Pencil"

Kameron Bean, 15
"Environmental Haiku"

Jenny Lynn Boully, 14
"Drink and Be Merry"

Carolyn Browning, 10
"Deceiving Winds"

C

Liz Carrion, 14
"The Classroom Kingdom"

Amy Michele Carter, 17
"Crayons"

Jacob Castillo, 17
"Untitled - What do I see?"

Danley Cornyn, 9
"Where the Water Flows"

Jay Creel, 11
"Spirit Dance"

David Crow, 11
"Midnight Magic"

D

Lorie Ann Delgado, 15
"The Roses"

Naomi Dominguez, 15
"Collision"
"Run Out"
"Sometimes I Want to Run"

Janeice Duhart, 9
"Homework"

E

Steven Erholtz, 11
"Word Power"

Albert Escamilla, 8
"Darkness"

F

Oswald Flores, 17
"Sister's Prayer"

G

Thea Alyssa Galenes, 15
"The 'Lesuorac'"

Thea Alyssa Galenes, 15
"The Seven Sisters"

Richard Gill, 6
"The Canoe"

W. Paul Green, 10
"Night"

H

April Dawn Hain, 16
"The Trap"

Ashley L. Hammann, 10
"Silent Garden"

Erin Hanna, 15
"I Wandered"

Natalie Harrell, 11
"Shadow Dance"

Jesse Hernandez, 8
"The Lovely Day"

Paul Duke Hernandez, 17
"Solitary"

Joshua Höhn, 6
"Sisters"

K

Brooke Korbell, 10
"Garden Silence"

L

Alica Lam, 15
"Dreams..."
"In the Poor Streets"

Omar Anthony Leos, 16
"What is Love?"

M

Josephine Tobin Maessen, 12
"One Out of Many"

Gabrielle Marcus, 17
"Buddha The Pinsetter"

Courtenay Martin, 16
"Joan of Arc"

Brigid Milligan, 9
"A Seasonal Saying"

Michael Milligan, 11
"Where and When and How?"

Wendy Elizabeth Mironov, 6
"Untitled - The wind is blowing"

Anne Montgomery, 12
"My Purple Cotton Underwear"

Jacqueline Moody, 16
"Iris"

Alejandra Morales, 10
"I Am a Flower"

Amanda Lynn Morgan, 16
"Cold Reality"
"She Wasn't Home"

N

Timothy Nisbet, 7
"The Ocean"

P

Katie Phippen, 14
"Where are the Children"

Nicole Pollentier, 16
"Just A Little Jim's Poem"
"Tapestries"

R

Shannon Reedy, 5
"Untitled - Carnation"

Anne Barry Richmond, 17
"Doorknobs"

Elijah S. Rios, 18
"Until Tomorrow"

Cristina Rodriguez, 18
"I Heard a Clock Chime When the Sun Fell"
"An Island in 1959"
"Rite of Passage"

S

Erik Sanchez, 11
"Untitled - Always having nobody"

Giana Sarri, 15
"Lust for Forever Skies"

Clarissa Staley, 17
"Untitled - Leopard skis parade"

Colin S. Stokes, 16
"New Moon Inspired by Wallace Stevens' '13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird'"
"The Tragedy of the Fortunate"

T

Ngoc Tran, 13
"No Answers"

W

Mike Woodward, 8
"Untitled - The new king's knife"

Meredyth Work, 11
"The Ocean"

Joseph Zapata, 8
"A Funny Dog"

Edward Vincent Zepeda, 17
"Prayers for the Dead"

Congratulations to the Young Pegasus 1992 Selected Poets!

Judges: Antoinette V. Franklin, William Guardia, Barbara Stanush, Joan Mellard, Dennis Patrick Slattery, Amy Freeman Lee, Steven KellmanK

A

Jennifer Aguillon, 9
"In Spring"

B

Sarah Beck, 14
"The Little Joys of Puberty"

Jennifer Benavidez, 18
"Affinities"
"you wept"

Jean M. Bezdek, 15
"Frozen Smiles"

Carolyn Stacey Brouillard, 13
"Untitled - A little girl"

C

Meghan Cox, 9
"Beach"

David Crow, 12
"Moondancers"

John Crow, 7
"Untitled - The equirrel"
"Not Old Enough"
"Space"

D

Sarah Darnell, 13
"Nightmares"

Jessica M. Deegan, 8
"Love"

F

Marilyn Flores, 8
"St. Valentine's Day"

Richard Frank, 10
"Sode Can"

Dustin Jon Frye, 7
"The Very, Very Hungry Shark"

G

Thea Alyssa Galenes, 16
"Cemetery at Seco Creek Utopica, Texas"
"Laundry"
"Reservation"

Paul Gaskin, 9
"Out in the Fields"

Jason German, 17
"Speak Softly"

David Germer, 10
"School's Out"

Dora Gomez, 15
"The Life of a Raven"

Lisa Granado, 17
"I Caught You Looking"

H

Alexander B. Hernandez, 8
"My P Poem"

Akbar A. Hussein, 14
"Green Leaves"

K

Bart Kelly, 12
"Seas"

L

Alica Lam, 16
"Raspberry Tea for Three"

Vida Maria Leal, 17
"Daystar"
"Messiah"
"Pillage"

Laurie Christine Lichtenberg, 17
"The Composers"

Brenda E. Lopez, 7
"My Sister"

M

Courtenay Martin, 17
"Untitled - Night, carry me gently"

Jennifer Kathleen Martinez, 18
"Untitled - I want to take a container"
"Abduction"

Michael Scotte Martinez, 16
"Heat"

David Mauze, 13
"The Basketball Room"

Gina Danielle Melo, 18
"Emerald Tears"

Brigid Milligan, 10
"Cardinal"

P

Matthew Petrich, 11
"Math, My Favorite Subject"

Emily Hatton Pfeifer, 11
"The North Wind"

Catalina L. Phippen, 16
"Too Common a Lie"

Nicole Pollentier, 17
"Untitled - i used to tell the woman"
"Between the Canned Peas and the Tuna"

R

Joshua Rickel, 12
"My Home"

Brandon Rogers, 6
"Never"

Patrick Ryan, 12
"Hall of Mirror"

S

Jason Gabriel Shanfield, 17
"Untitled - would you"

Misti Autumn Smyth, 17
"Saturday's Fathers"

Colin Stokes, 18
"Botanical Gardens: CLASSIFIED"
"The End of Adolescence"
"Epiphany in a Passing Period"
"On Blinking"
"'TAPS' in a Classroom"

Michelle Strait, 17
"Watching Your Playground"

T

Emily Talbot, 11
"Tornado"

Claire Templin, 12
"Shell Fragments of Life"

V

Rosa Lee Vega, 17
"Behind the Wooden Fence"

Jordan Vexler, 11
"Vibrant Spirits"

W

Sarah Weakley, 12
"Succumbing to Jealousy"

Billy J. Workman, 10
"Untitled - My woolen sweater"

Congratulations to the Young Pegasus 1993 Selected Poets!

Judges: Amy Freeman Lee, Joan Mellard, Robert Flynn, Joe Manry, Antoinette V. Franklin, William Guardia, Dennis Patrick Slattery

A

Timothy Allen, 7
"The Old Barn"

Ben Azar, 15
"The Morning Rises"

B

Carissa Beachey, 17
"Autumn in Adair"
"Crayon Thoughts"
"Inspiration"
"Liquid Light"

C

Jason Casell, 18
"Mexico"

David B.A. Crow, 13
"The Dawning"
"The Price"

John L.S. Crow, 8
"Night Sky"
"Rainbow"

Luis Armando Cuellar, 13
"Daydream"

D

Jennie Dawson, 11
"Silence Smiled Patiently..."

Lindsey DeBerry, 12
"She Never Cried"

Jessica Deegan, 9 
"Growing Up"

E

Bradley East, 11
"Pockets"

G

Victoria Garcia, 17
"My Vegetable Garden"

Celesta Marie Guzman, 17
"gypsy"
"Hermanas de Palabras"
"Mi Momma"
"Peeling Away"
"Saturday at the Salon"

K

Katherine King, 10
"Black"

Lilly Kreager, 10
"A Crystal, Tear and a Silver Smile"

L

Emily Langford, 17
"Untitled - Seshat sits in the marketplace"

M

Aisha Marshall, 16
"Doubt"

Brigid Milligan, 11
"Gang Alley"
"Inspiration"

Michael Milligan, 13
"Anasazi Rains"

Larry R. Morales, 11
"The Thin Blue Light"

P

Sarah Renee Pack, 11
"Zipping Through Life"

Steven Patino, 17
"Prometheus' Remorse"

Kelly Katherine Petlin, 9
"Dream"

S

Ana E. Sandoval, 17
"Faith"
"Warmth"

Sarah Schenk, 9
"Lake in Palestine"

Jean A. Siskovic, 15
"A Place We'll Always Go"
"Intensity"
"The Warm and the Red"

Lindsey Scott Smith, 11
"Words and Knots"

Rachel Szuma, 9
"A Summer Day"

T

Krissy Teegerstrom, 17
"The Dead's Dance"

Geoffrey Robert Topham, 12
"Killer Sister"

V

Rosa Lee Vega, 18
"Unknown Voices"

Congratulations to the Young Pegasus 1994 Selected Poets!

Judges: Beverly Sanchez Padilla, Amy Freeman Lee, Dennis Patrick Slattery, Carol Wright Smith, Lucia Serna, Joan Mellard Voigt, Antoinette V. Franklin

A

Omar Alvarez, 14
"Rocking and Rolling"

Ofilio Arocha, 11
"Walls"

Sara Ash, 10
"My Aunt Carol"

B

Stephanie Bain, 13
"In My Pool"

Holly Ann Barko, 18
"El Viaje"
"The Trip"

Jenny Lynn Boully, 17
"For Myself and My Asian Blood"
"The Mellow Yellow Days Drain Away"

Dustin Allen Burrell, 13
"A School Day"

C

Alisa Campbell, 18
"Examining Nature"

Linda Clark, 17
"Thompson's Yellow Hair"

John L.S. Crow, 9
"Silence"
"Waiting"

D

Peter Drought Danysh, 9 
"My Cockatiel Bird"

Eric Davidson, 10
"My Grandma"

Eileen De Mott, 18
"Untitled - rows of desks"

F

Daria Flores, 10
"My Grandpa"

Lelah Foster, 17
"Frida's Plan"

G

Veronica Annette Gonzalez, 17
"Ansel's Wrinkles"

Ana Terea Guajardo, 17
"Guitar"

H

Amy C. Haeuser, 8
"Magnificent Mammals and Exotic Animals"

Melissa Hamilton, 14
"Carrots"

Teresita Hinojosa, 18
"My Concerns"

K

Katherine Ketner, 14
"A Landing"

James W. Koch, 18
"Amongst Nantucket"

Allison Kreisberg, 17
"Fire"

L

William Lange, 10
"My Dad"

M

Robert Madrigal, 12
"Our Place"

Ryan McDaniel, 8
"Soccer"

Detricia Miller, 10
"Puzzles"

Brigid Milligan, 12
"Mogollon Dream Ruins*"

Catherine Marie Mooneyham, 11
"The Magician"

P

Katerine Palacios, 9
"On a Walk"

Conicka Parker, 10
"Stuck in the World!"

Jennifer Ann Peters, 12
"Autumn Leaves Dancing"

R

Joey Ricketts, 10
"Untitled - My dad's friend's eyes"

S

Sara Kate Schwartz, 9
"Simile Sara"

Jean E. Siskovic, 16
"The Gift"

Charita Melei' Smith, 13
"Who I Am"

Christina Sohn, 9
My Greatgrandfather"

Anne Susen, 9
"Great Grandmother"

T

Will Terry, 10
"Garden"

Carey Thompson, 13
"Frustration"

Mark Tolan, 13
"The Meadow"

V

Joshua E. Veale, 17
"Soft"

W

Nathaniel J. Wagner, 10
"A River"

Y

Sandy Yturri, 17
"Untitled - I Walk"
"Untitled - There's a little old woman"

Congratulations to the Young Pegasus 1995 Selected Poets!

Judges: Lucia Serna, John Igo, Antoinette V. Franklin, Nora Mahon Olivares, Charles Owsley, Amy Freeman Lee, Dennis Patrick Slattery

A

Edward Acosta, 7
"Red"

Nellie Aguilera, 9
"Flowers and Weeds"

Anita Alfaro, 17
"Untitled - the fire"

Yuridia Alvarez, 12
"Primavera / Spring"

Meredith Lyn Andrichak, 11
"What Pegasus Finds"

Sara Elizabeth Aronson, 9
"Soaring with the Eagles"

B

Anika Blanco, 11
"What Am I?"

Rebecca Blank, 10
"Night"

Andrea Butler, 9
"Flowers in the Field"

C

Melissa Cantu, 7
"Vibrating Keys"

James W. Coots, 15
"King of the Jungle"

Susan Currie, 14
"Premonitions of Geometry"
"Welcome"
"Untitled - When you left"

D

Francesca Renee De La Vega, 7
"Embarrassed"

G

Monica Gordon, 11
"Shooting Stars"

H

Caitlin Harris, 10
"Night"

Mary Alicia Hollimon, 17
"To Whom it May Concern"

L

Kyleigh Lane, 9

"The Ball"

Jose Leonidas, 13
"Hearts of Love"

M

Mandi Mawyer, 7
"Ranger the Dog"

Tori Andaleah McCorquodale, 12
"My Slide"

Brigid Milligan, 13
"By a Silver Thread"
"Whirlpool Dreams"

Michael Milligan, 15
"Poeta Vesuvii"

Jeanne Morris, 10
"Hide and Seek"

N

Sapna Naik, 9
"Anger"

O

Andrew Owen, 14
"Sunset on a DC-9"

P

Nathan Peebles, 18
"Burning Elizabeth"

Jeff Perkins, 11
"Anger"

R

Carly Rappaport, 10
"A Family Affair"

Whitney Walsh Reeb, 11
"One"

Caitlin Anne Des Rosier, 9
"I Was Once Six"

S

Eliot Sayles, 10
"Mother Earth"

Kevin Seery, 11
"Cheetah"

Loni Sepulveda, 12
"*My Prayer*"

Beth Shaw-Meadow, 9
"Painting"

Stephanie Sierra, 14
"Little Bluebonnet Girl"
"Words I've Not Kept"

Cresencio Silva IV, 8
"Candles"

Ashley Southwell, 11
"My Slide"

Christine Elizabeth Spiller, 13
"Ice Cream Flavors"

Sarah E. Sullivan, 11
"Bald Bell"

V

Sirena Nicole Vandervort, 4
"Rain"

Brian Villalobos, 14
"Occupation"

W

Amanda Wallace, 11
"Me"

Congratulations to the Young Pegasus 1996 Selected Poets!

Judges: Joan Mellard Voigt, Ellen Shull, John Igo, Patricia Fite, Amy Freeman Lee, Sister Germaine Corbin

C

Susan Currie, 15
"Untitled - The raven's glare"
"Untitled - Wreaths of dried grass"

D

Pascual Darcey, 3
"Untitled - Luz del alma"

Kathleen Denny, 11
"The Waiter"

Katherine Yvette Drennan, 16
"Untitled - The soft spoken moonlight"

F

Javier Antonio Flores, 16
"The Apartment Building"

G

Christine Evelyn Gamez, 11
"Fire"

Kelsey Nicole Gantos, 11
"A Sea of Words"

Abril Andrea Garcia, 17
"Diego Rivera's Painting Agrarian Leader Zapata"

Terence Joseph Gelo, 5
"The Camping Trip"

Sabrina Guerrero, 14
"Hidden"

H

Maria Haring, 14
"The Sparrow's Song"

Garrett Heinrichs, 10
"Kindness"

J

Robyn Jimenez, 17
"Grandfather's Clock"

Allyn Mae Johnston, 16
"Light Being Snubbed"
"Untitled - Thread that needle, baby"

K

Danielle Koranek, 8
"Untitled - I once had a friend"

L

Sarah Flanagan Lichenstein, 13
"Abandoned Hero"

M

Cassandra Nichole Malcom, 17
"Born of Fire"

Hailey L. Martini, 9
"Just Open Your Eyes and See..... 'Silence'"

Stephanie Ann Mauricio, 9
"The Sky of My Heart"

Jennifer McCaleb, 11
"In the Dark"

Stephanie Miller, 5
"Untitled - The moon went floating"

Susan Lorain Miller, 16
"Father's Scar"

Brigid A. Milligan, 14
"Old Coffee Tables: A Cracked Villanelle"

Jeanne Morris, 11
"Wilting Rose"

Callie Mortimer, 10
"The Gymnast"

O

Azani Olezene, 17
"Sensitivity"

P

Marina Isabel Peacher, 11
"February Twilight"

R

George Gerald Rasmussen, 18
"The Changeling"

Alyssa Reed, 16
"Untitled - I saw him once"

Elizabeth Richards, 10
"Coverhider"
"Small King"

Janell Richter, 11
"Carnation"

S

Alma Jacqueline Salcedo, 14
"Peaches"

Michael Spengler, 18
"Insert Title Here"

Jacob Stoehr, 14
"Mobile Chagrin"

Jenne Stonaker, 14
"Dreams"

T

Sonia Torres, 17
"The Answer"

U

Monica Uddin, 11
"I Caught a Thought"

Y

Gretchen Yale, 14
"Dreams Gone Silent"

Congratulations to the Young Pegasus 1997 Selected Poets!

Judges: Carol M. Siskovic, John Igo, Palmer Hall, Joan Mellard Voigt, Sister Germaine Corbin, Carol Coffee Reposa, Amy Freeman Lee

A

Kristin Nicole Andrews, 11
"Smokey"

B

Emily Babcock, 17
"Untitled - You tossed up the crazies"

C

Bryan Clark, 17
"Ashes in the Wind"

Amber Rae Coulter, 8
"Unicorns"

Susan Curries, 16
"Ruins"

D

Kelly R. Daniels, 11
"It Could Happen"

Anna Davis, 14
"Desolate"

Jimena de Haro, 14
"Caged Bird"

Rebecca Ann Deering, 12
"Temptation"

Kelly Devine, 17
"Desert Night"
"Thunder Storm"

F

Katie Fitch, 14
"Thunderstorm"

G

Jennifer Renee Garza, 10
"Kindness"

Paul Simon Garza, 9
"Writing"

Veronica Garza, 9
"Something is There!"

Lizzy Gladstone, 8
"Night"

H

Elizabeth Hammer, 12
"A Rose for a Rose"

Amelia Grace Hausser, 10
"Statues"

J

Daniel Jackson, 14
"The Dreams' Case"

Miranda Heather Jones, 6
"Candy Cane"

M

Alma L. Martinez, 18
"Performance"

Cameron Anne Miller McCall, 9
"Christmas Eve"

Maggie McGehee, 13
"Life"

Jonathan Meyers, 10
"Frustrations"

Michael Milligan, 17
"Palabras Antiguas"

Kaitlin Moore, 11
"Mirrored"

Will Munroe, 11
"Sandy"

N

Amber Nelson, 13
"Howling Winds"

Maggie Neiro, 14
"Driving"
"White Rose"

P

Melissa Peña, 16
"Untitled"

R

Kathryn Rosenmann, 17
"Dry"

S

Alma Jacqueline Salcedo, 15
"Two-Toned Café"

Graceann Seaman, 8
"The Rocks in the River"

Jenne Stonaker, 15
"Feathers"

Katy Swann, 13
"Untitled - I once was a lonely note"

V

Melissa Sandy Vela, 16
"The Day That Never Came"

Victoria Villanueva, 17
"Function of a Child"

Lucian Villaseñor, 8
"Praying to Tlaloc"

W

Heather Walter, 10
"Winter Storm"

Congratulations to the Young Pegasus 1998 Selected Poets!

Judges: Rick Casey, Joan Voigt, Steve Trowbridge, Carol Siskovic, John Igo, Yvette Benavides, Amy Freeman Lee

B

Chelsea Blandford, 7
"My Mystery Place"

Aubrey Buckert, 16
"Accident"

C

Austin W. Chamberlin, 10
"The Moon"

John L.S. Crow, 13
"Writer's Block"

D

Jessica Daniel, 15
"Just How it Was"

E

Michelle Everidge, 15
"Till Dinnertime"

G

Lawrence Hadban, 9
"Who is God?"

Ali Garatoni, 11
"Reading"

Selina Garcia, 18
"Untitled - You can't buy it on a t-shirt"

Erica Lee Garlieb, 11
"Clouds"

Valarie Geckler, 12
"Lost Treasure"

H

Amanda Jean Haas, 15
"Success"

Ariana Homan-Cruz, 10
"Trumpeter Swans"

Kyndell Hoover, 10
"Waiting"

J

Allyn Mae Johnston, 18
"The Cinderella Scholar"

K

Sandra Kennison, 17
"Autumn Winds"

Timothy Daniel Klatt, 15
"Cocoon"

L

Nicole Lopez, 18
"Friend"
"Mi'ja"

M

Zachary McKnight, 9
"The Golfball"

Michael B. Milligan, 18
"Come in From Between"
"Igloos and the Yellow-Brick Road"

Toni Moore, 15
"St. Benedict"

Ashley Moreno, 15
"Ivory, Golden Gates"

N

Maggie Nerio, 15
"Second Stories in the Sunlight"

Laura Nyreen, 14
"Bloody Knuckles"

P

Hannah Patrick, 10
"Fog"

Q

Kathryn Nicole Quinones, 12
"A Little Corner of My Mind"

R

Brittany Reno, 10
"Vacation"

Amy Robinson, 5
"Little Tree"
"I Want a Cat"
"Moon and Snow"

Ricky Rocha, 9
"The Swing"

S

Katie Shull, 11
"Two Ways of Looking at Love"

T

Jessika Esther Taveras, 12
"The Dreamer"

V

Melissa Sandy Vela, 17
"Seven on the Day of Love"
"Special Delivery"
"Vigil"
"Your Ebony to My Ivory"

W

Ana Weaver, 10
"The Rain"

Chauncey Wesley, 15
"I Ran Out of Pavement Yesterday"

Congratulations to the Young Pegasus 1999 Selected Poets!

Judges: Joan Voigt, Yvette Benavides, Sister Germaine Corbin, John Igo, Amy Freeman Lee, Steven Trowbridge, Carol Siskovic

B

Sarah Alissa Bassler, 9
"Dancing Trees"

Roxanne Batilla, 16
"Inheritance"

Ben Batschelet, 14
"River"

Elaine Beastrom, 15
"Untitled - Il Pleut"

Kim Botello, 14
"A Pine Viewed From Within"
"Sharing Thoughts"

Hannah Brake, 8
"Flower Talk"

Julie Breeden, 13
"Painted Faces, Broken China"

Emily Browne, 13
"The Right Thing"

C

Megan Carr, 16
"Memory"

Autumn Cook, 11
"Riverlove"

Spencer Crum, 8
"I Wan to Remember..."

D

Alejandra De Hoyos, 9
"Poems"

Kathryn E. DeLee, 10
"Spider Web"

Kelly Diaz, 11
"Starting Point"

F

Dylan Alexander Farmer, 11
"Beanstalk Fantasy"

G

Thomas Valentine Gelo, 7
"Mommy's Hugs"

Megan Goldner, 9
"On a Reservation"

H

Stephanie Lynn Hamilton, 18
"Sweeping My Own Path"

Melissa Hickery, 8
"Cat"

M

Erin McGarry, 13
"After Dreams"

Brigid A. Milligan, 17
"Discussions With the Deity"
"Her Phaethon"

Peter Vincent Montoya, 12
"Chimera Café"

N

Alexandra Neville, 12
"Reflection"

Lauren Nyreen, 15
"Wannabe Princess"

P

Mitchell Bryce Peterson, 9
"The Blazing Sun"

Nina Nicole Piez, 12
"The Underside"

R

Adam Taylor Reed, 13
"Peace"

Amy Robinson, 6
"Dogs"
"The Golden Statue"

S

Katie Elizabeth Shull, 12
"Mystery"

Kathryn Sibley, 17
"From the Superhero's Diary"

Jonathan, Smost, 15
"Le Cigne"

V

Amanda Renee Vargas, 9
"In My Backyard"

Brian Villalobos, 17
"Mrs. Blake"

Daphnesther Villareal, 12
"Neat Room"

W

Teresa Weaver, 15
"The Chocolate, 15

Y

Marilee Young, 11
"Night Catcher"