National Poetry Month ended the month of April with the Book Spine Workshop & Contest, hosted by Skyline College Library on April 19, . Several students selected and stacked books to create their own inventive and expressive poems. The prizes were one $25, $15, and $10 gift card, a donation courtesy of Skyline College Bookstore.
First place winner for the $25 gift card was “Our Restless Century” by Kylea Pearson:
Rebels against WAR
The Future is Ours
Speaking Up
The Power of Protest
Letting go
The Rattling Chains
The Restless Century
Second place winner for the $15 gift card was “Global Existentialism” by Clayborne Go
Life As It Is
Of Molecules and Men
Only Skin Deep
In Our Own Image
The Design of Future Things
The Age of Oil
Plastic
Industrial
Rockets and Missiles
War on the Mind
Third place winner for the $10 gift card was “Not Safe For Writing” (NSFW) by Gabriel Capili
Censorship
Of Poetry & Protest
Consumed
The Way We Really Are
Give Your Speech, Change the World
Don’t let them scare you
The Library would like to thank all of our students who participated in the Book Spine Workshop & Contest event, as well as congratulate the winners.
Article by Sherri Wyatt | Photo by Pia Walawalkar
