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Kyle Machado reads from his work

Senior Ezra Furman, an English major and the front man of up-and-coming Tufts band Ezra Furman and the Harpoons, received the first-place Academy of American Poets Poetry Prize for his work "The Bedroom" and other poems. He read from his work along with freshman Nan Lin and sophomore English major Olga Rukovets, who won the second- and third-place prizes, respectively.

(L to R font row) Ezra Furman, Alex Gonzalez, Olga Rukovets, Nan Lin. Featured in the  back Professor Nan Levinson and Professor Emeritus Alan Lebowitz.

The Academy of American Poets Poetry Prize program, which began in 1955, sponsors over 200 annual prizes for collegiate poets nationwide. The Tufts contest was judged by Robin Behn, poet and author of The Red Hour and Horizon Note. Behn, an English professor at the University of Alabama, chose the three winners from a variety of Tufts students who applied.

Senior Kyle Machado won the Morse Hamilton Fiction Prize for the piece "Clytus Interrupts Us." Freshman Garrett Bowen and junior Michael Nachbar won honorable mention for the pieces "Like Birds, Flying Always Over the Mountain" and "The End of the Beginning," respectively.
The fiction prize, named after former Tufts English Professor Morse Hamilton, is offered yearly to a Tufts student who shows excellence in creative writing. This year's contest was judged by English Professor Emeritus Alan Lebowitz.

Freshman Alex Gomez won the Ginny Brereton Prize for First-Year Writing for his piece "Cold War." The Brereton Prize, which is awarded to one Tufts freshman each year, was judged by English Professor Linda Bamber, the Director of Tufts' First-Year Writing Program and the author of Metropolitan Tang.

The first-place winners of each contest will receive a prize of $100.

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