2021 National High School Poetry Award
TOPICAL WINNER
Moeity
Excerpt:"... Is life favillous?

Does it pour or does it fly?

Are lovers and fakers treasonous, 

Or do they just indemnify?
Do we parade ourselves for art

Or is it because we fear crucifixion? 

The apple was bitten tart

But existence is a contradiction...."
2021 Scholastic
Art & Writing Awards
GOLD KEY WINNER - Poetry
* Where I am From
Excerpt:"... I am from all theses things which are now conglomerations of colors collected into photographs
Locked away in the attic to gaze upon lovingly and frantically before life gets in the way again
Where I am from is not a place or a person, I am only from those experiences which buried me alive, and those experiences which uncovered part of me I never knew."
2021 National English Honor Society Poetry Awards
FIRST PRIZE WINNER
PALINDROME
MONSTERS
DR SEUSS
2020 Scholastic
Art & Writing Awards
HONORABLE MENTION- Poetry & Art
* Poetry - Swiss Cheese Teeth
Excerpt:"... Dad's teeth were like his laundry; coffee-stained despite being regularly washed, and always neatly folded away for another day."
* Poetry - An Astrophysicist and a Neuroscientist...
* Drawing & Illustration - Gliding Octopus
2019 Scholastic
Art & Writing Awards
HONORABLE MENTION- Poetry
* Poetry - Eggshells
Excerpt:"...Unable to look in the mirror at you,
You shove the mirror into others' faces
Screaming at their tears running downhill races."
2018 Scholastic
Art & Writing Awards
HONORABLE MENTION - Poetry
* Poetry - Air
2020 Robert Frost Poetry Award
SECOND PRIZE WINNER
Whoever Said Felines Can't Fly?
Excerpt:"... A fluffy gray cat plumps on the pillow, responding to the dolls' gaze with her thundering purr. She then pounces on the wood floor, chasing her imaginary prey, flying through rooms and down hallways..."
2019 Poetic Power
Published - Fall
Ridgewood
Excerpt:"... Never shall I forget the misfit mailman whose bronze fingers held the words of lost loves, and polished lips held a pencil precariously between his teeth."
2018 Poetic Power
Published - Fall
Make-up
"In the space between eyelashes lie the whimsical, oblivious colors of hope. Until the inevitable, course bristles of mascara fill the infinite spaces. The black ink directs the gaze from love to lust."
2017 Poetic Power
Published - Fall
The Breakup
2016 Robert Frost Poetry Award
SECOND PRIZE WINNER
Crying
2015 Poetic Power
Published - Summer
Oblivion
Excerpt:"... Your portrait in the smudged window shows you, yourself from the outside within..."
2014 Poetic Power
Published - Summer, Fall
My Lonely Room
This is Me