Congratulations to FoFG Contest Winners

ADULT AWARDS

1^st Place – $500

Josh Lefkowitz, “A Poem of Fact”

2^nd Place – $250

Kathleen Hellen, “Everyday Halloween”

3^rd Place – $150

Lorna Davis, “Buyer’s Remorse”

4^th Place – $100

Alexandra Umlas, “Falun Gong”

5^th Place– $75

A.R. Harmon, “Welcome Tree”

Honorable Mentions | Adult

George Ian Thomas, “Trina’s Eyes Made Me See”

Amber Shreves, “There is Strength in Falun Gong”

Allegra Jostad Silberstein, “For the Falun Gong of China”

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HIGH SCHOOL AWARDS

1^st Place – $100

Noah Hale, “To Faraway Friends”

2^nd Place – $75

Angelique Clark, “The Calm Before the War”

3^rd Place – $50

Kim Su Fowler, “For All That Love Is Worth”

Honorable Mentions | High School

Jessica Lecorchick, “Cloaked China”

Fiza Hasan, “The Abuse We Suffer”

Christina Knight, “The Story of Gao Rongrong”

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Contest Judges

Evan Mantyk, President of The Society of Classical Poets

Adam Miller, FoFG Editor

(with additional helpful eyes from the FoFG Editorial Staff)

Note from the Editors: most of these poems were written by poets who just recently learned about Falun Gong and the persecution. While we recognize and commend these poems as voices of support, they do not represent Falun Gong itself or even the views of FoFG as an organization. For a genuine understanding of the practice, one would have to explore the teachings at their very source.