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International poetry contest recognizes South Carolina Governor's School student Emily Nason
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GREENVILLE, SOUTH CAROLINA - February 25, 2011 - South Carolina Governor's School for the Arts and Humanities (SCGSAH) poetry student, Emily Nason, has been recognized in national and international poetry contests for her work.
Nason, a junior creative writer, is a runner-up in the Nancy Thorp Poetry Contest, sponsored by Hollins University. The annual contest selects one winner and six runners-up out of more than 1000 nation-wide entries.
As a result, her poem "Nesting" will be published in Cargoes, the Hollins University literary magazine.
As a runner-up for the Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize, Nason's work "Ripening" will appear in an upcoming issue of The Kenyon Review, contest sponsor and one of the nation's most respected literary journals. Editor David Baker selects one winner and two runners-up from approximately 700 world-wide entries.
"The wonder of Emily Nason's poetry is not what terrain she traverses--the south and family, food and loss--but rather the unflinching eye she uses to do so. With quiet diligence, she treks through memory and circumstance, is not afraid to travel into a vulnerable place and stay there so that art might be possible," says Mamie Morgan, Poetry Instructor for SCGSAH Creative Writing department. "The speaker of Emily's poems chases ducks, recognizes that as a teenager she is halfway to becoming her parents; she is courageous enough to be afraid of everything, to wonder how much timeany of us has."
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