Jean Corrie Poetry Reading: Edgar Kunz and Student Winners

Edgar Kunz is the author of the poetry collection Tap Out (Mariner / Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019), a New York Times New & Noteworthy book. Originally from New England, Edgar lives in Baltimore where he teaches at Goucher College and in the low-residency Newport MFA. He has received fellowships and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), MacDowell, Bread Loaf, Sewanee, and Stanford University, where he was a Wallace Stegner Fellow. He is working on a book of poems about love and late capitalism. 

Shirley Liu is the winner of the Jean Corrie Poetry Prize! Shirley Liu is from Washington, DC. They are currently pursuing a degree in English/Philosophy with a minor in Data Science. After undergrad, they hope to get a master's in library science. Aside from reading and writing, their hobbies include doom-scrolling on Twitter and trying to get their friends to play obscure board games whose rules take twenty minutes to explain.

Fatimata Cham is the Honorable Mention for the Jean Corrie Poetry Prize. Originally from the Bronx, New York, Fatimata now lives in Easton, PA as a second year student attending Lafayette College. Her activism journey began in 2015 at her boarding school in Northern, New Hampshire. She noticed that there was a missing puzzle piece in the conversation revolving around equity and education. She began to lead discussions at her school about diversity and inclusion. She later became a teen advisor to the United Nations Foundation Girl Up and later began to advocate for gender equality around the globe. Fatimata scaled up her work and later became a published poet to the book Perfectly Imperfect. Featured in Pix 11, News 12 the Bronx, The Today Show among many others she continues to fight for a more equitable and just world.