To celebrate National Poetry Month and Oklahoma, the Rural Oklahoma Museum of Poetry conducts an annual Oklahoma Poem Contest, with cash prizes and medals for the winners.
This year’s contest deadline is April 15, 2019, and the winners will be announced and awarded at
Wonder City Wordfest
April 27, 2019
Wonder City Coffee, 114 Main
Locust Grove
The 2018 Oklahoma Poem Contest winners were announced and prizes awarded at
Wonder City Wordfest
April 14, 2018
Thank you, poets for entering. The poems are truly inspiring and honor our state in a variety of ways.
Photographs of the winners who were at the ceremony can be found HERE.
2018 Oklahoma Poem Contest Winners
Category: K-5th Grade
1st
Aurora Parks, Roosevelt Elementary, Pryor
2nd
Amelia Hanlan, Independence Elementary, Yukon
3rd (tie)
Madison Mennecke, LGUE, Locust Grove
Parker Hensley, Independence Elementary, Yukon
Category: 6th-8th Grade
1st
Erin Bendabout, LGMS, Locust Grove
2nd
Jerah Bighorse, LGMS, Locust Grove
3rd (tie)
Miranda Blossom, LGMS, Locust Grove
Mya Phillips, LGMS, Locust Grove
Category: 9th-12th Grade
1st
Jasmine Alverado, Emerson South, Oklahoma City
2nd
Sierra Murphy, LGHS, Locust Grove
3rd
Audra Cunningham, LGHS, Locust Grove
Category: Adult
1st
Casey Mclerran, Sapulpa
2nd
Debra Martin, Edmond
3rd
Hannah Eaton, Claremore
You can read all of the winning poems in a pdf by clicking HERE.
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