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Students Published in Lyrical Iowa

The Iowa Poetry Association’s annual anthology of poems, Lyrical Iowa, will be released in October and will feature the work of several Dordt emeriti professors as well as a number of current Dordt students.

Several Dordt students in Professor Howard Schaap’s spring writing class submitted entries to the competition, and their poems will be published in the college student division of the anthology released in October: Jane Wegener (Edgerton, MN) was awarded third place; Jurgen Boerma (Pantego, NC) received first honorable mention; Laura Heckman (Canton, SD) received second honorable mention; and Merlyndi Prosper (Coulibistrie, Dominica) received third honorable mention. Also being published in Lyrical Iowa are Jessica Klopstra and Dustin Biel from Lacombe, AB; and Luke Schut and Larissa Arkema from Pella, IA.

Judges chose from among more than 1,400 adult and nearly 1,000 student entries to award cash prizes for sonnets, haiku, humorous verse, national-world events, indigenous to Iowa, poems for children and general categories. The volume will be released in October.