First Place
Sarah C. Gibson ’10.5
“On Hogs”

Second Place
Sara N. Mann ’10
"the space inside the seedpod (excerpts)"
After graduating in 2010, Sara received a Master of Arts in Teaching also from Brown and has been teaching 11th and 12th grade English in Massachusetts since then. She lives in Arlington, MA with her husband and (very tiny!) son.

Honorable Mention
Laura Brown-Lavoie '10.5
"Friends You Haven't Met Yet - Notes"
Laura Brown-Lavoie is a poet, performer, and farmer in Providence. Since graduating in 2010, she twice represented Providence as a finalist in national poetry slam competitions, and served for 2 years as the co-director of the Providence Poetry Slam. In 2011, she founded Sidewalk Ends Farm with her sisters, beginning on an abandoned house lot in Providence, and eventually growing to feed a 60-family CSA and selling produce at 2 local farmer's markets and to restaurants. In recent years, Laura has worked as an Artist Facilitator for the City of Providence, and is currently piloting a program to train local artists as Community Health Workers, while remaining deep in study of the medicine of plants. Laura recently completed her first full-length poetry manuscript, Club Desire, which burst from a ruptured gas main on Allens Avenue a couple years ago and is still hissing.