If You Could Write a Poem For The Statue of Liberty Today, What Would You Say?
The Emma Lazarus Poetry Contest offered young and emerging poets the opportunity to reimagine The New Colossus. View all of our winner and finalist submissions below for 2020 and 2021.
2021 Poetry Contest Winners and Finalists
2020 Poetry Contest Winners and Finalists
Winners and Finalists
by Benjamin Regan
The heartbeat of our land reverberates, vibrates from liberty on a stand. A torch for truth, a flame for freedom, may immigrants see their…
2021
by Lilly Wu
To yearn for more, one reaches outto the opportunities Lady Liberty does provide.A torch in her right hand shines brightbeyond the labyrinthine darkness of…
2021
by Ayelet Amittay
I was born a giant. I held firein one hand, the book of justicein the other. I was born to metaland flame, the rain…
2021
by Everett Arellano
As Lady Liberty looks around,She realizes what the nation is all about,Murder, discrimination, war all throughout,A divided nation where politicians fight for power,Where the…
2021
by Angelique Sarofim
Her watching eyes have gazed upon the progress of a century and then some. Those eyes of bottle green, boundlessly bold, Forever watching the…
2021
by Alexa Marsh
Are the lines that stretch down the Patina skin of lady liberty emblems Of a hallowed history? Once her Thick brows and stiff lips…
2021
by A. Thu Ngo
Mother of Exiles—conceived in abolitionist dreambut still barely rid of the shackle and chain at your feet—you struggle to stand erect; this vision you’ve…
2021
by Samantha Tan
“Happy 4th of July”a phrase said proudly every year my young blind self. Happy for who Lessons taught about America,conveniently leaving out th rest…
2020
by Dana Blatte
i.Give me your tired, your poor,your waterlogged mouths of rubble,your salt-lipped bleedingtongues & prayer-bent palms.Look: lady liberty, guardianof shipwrecks & wayward bodies.Guide us ashore…
2020
If You Could Write a Poem For The Statue of Liberty Today, What Would You Say?
The Emma Lazarus Poetry Contest offered young and emerging poets the opportunity to reimagine The New Colossus. View all of our winner and finalist submissions below for 2020 and 2021.
2021 Poetry Contest Winners and Finalists
2020 Poetry Contest Winners and Finalists
Winners
- Whither Goest Thou? by: Sophia Haber
- Lady Liberty: Reimagined, by: Kevin Kong
- For All Her Storied Strength, by: Sophie Goldensohn
Finalists
- Crossing, by: Mary Hutchins Harris
- Give Me Your Tired, by: Carol Tiebout
- Moira Camp: A New Colossus, by: Ojo Taiye
- Out here on the Mesa, by: Naomi Feinstein Sandweiss
- Postcard to a 71A or C Port Authority Bus Driver, by: Micaela Fox Corn
- Some Questions for You, America, by: Lisa Summe
- American Dream, Interrupted, by: Serrina Zou
- Neck of Copper, by: Rosetta Serrano
- Threnody for Libertas, by: Dana Blatte
- Whose broad stripes and bright stars, by: Samantha Tan
- A Copper Goddess, by: Skye Papa
- Becoming Next, by: Sylvia Merrill
- Broken but Golden, by: Genevieve Oudens
- The Statue of Liberty, by: Mila Duffoo
- Lonely Liberty, by: Giavanna Civitello
