English Teacher KB Kinkel Wins Tupelo Quarterly Poetry Prize
CSW congratulates English Teacher KB Kinkel on earning Tupelo Quarterly's TQ32 Poetry Prize, judged by poet Oliver de la Paz. Read his winning submission, “The Spirit Too Has Mastered Its Illusions."
KB's poems, interviews, and reviews have appeared or are forthcoming in Tupelo Quarterly, Ninth Letter, Prelude, The Rumpus, Poetry Online, and elsewhere. He holds an MFA in poetry from the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and is the author of the chapbook blood machine, a finalist for the 2020 Tupelo Press Sunken Garden Chapbook Prize and a semifinalist for the Poetry.ONL Chapbook Series Fellowship (2023). He was a semifinalist for the Bennett Nieberg Transpoetic Broadside Prize (Gasher Press, 2023) and was longlisted for the 2023 Frontier Award for New Poets (2023).
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English Teacher KB Kinkel Wins Tupelo Quarterly Poetry Prize
CSW congratulates English Teacher KB Kinkel on earning Tupelo Quarterly's TQ32 Poetry Prize, judged by poet Oliver de la Paz. Read his winning submission, “The Spirit Too Has Mastered Its Illusions."Read More -
Three Named Boston Herald Winter Prep School All-stars
CSW Athletics is proud to announce that three student-athletes have been named Winter Prep School All Stars by the Boston Herald.Read MoreINDEPENDENT GIRLS CONFERENCE
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Boys' Varsity Basketball
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Gabriella ’24 Shines in Slam Poetry Competition
Gabriella Lipstich ’24 recently participated in Write Here, Write Now, Speak Loud, a youth spoken word festival in Boston run by the organization Mass Poetry. She participated in both the individual and team competitions. Her team garnered first place in round one, earning them a spot in the finals with four other teams, and a third place finish overall. On the individual side, Gabrielle performed in the preliminary Boston Regional bout in April, and won, making her one of 15 poets, aged 13 to 19, invited to participate in the Massachusetts finals, which took place on May 5. Deemed one of the top six performers in her bracket, Gabriella will now move on to compete in the Brave New Voices teen poetry slam festival, set to take place in Washington, DC, in July, alongside fellow poets from around the world.Read More
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