Elizabeth Roa Martinez

Pratt senior Portlyn Houghton-Harjo and Dartmouth senior Tom Bosworth win the 100th annual Glascock poetry contest

Pratt senior Portlyn Houghton-Harjo and Dartmouth senior Tom Bosworth win the 100th annual Glascock poetry contest

Over the last 100 years, the Mount Holyoke College English department has invited college-aged poets and professional poet judges to the College to participate in the Glascock poetry contest. This year the judges — poets Hoa Ngyuen, Eileen Myles and Evie Shockley — split the prize and awarded it to Dartmouth College senior Tom Bosworth and Pratt Institute senior Portlyn Houghton-Harjo.

University of Massachusetts Boston to be represented by Elizabeth Roa Martinez ’24 at Glascock Poetry Contest

University of Massachusetts Boston to be represented by Elizabeth Roa Martinez ’24 at Glascock Poetry Contest

Elizabeth Roa Martinez, a senior at the University of Massachusetts Boston, has not always loved poetry. However, in high school, it became “an outlet for [her] mental health struggles and a form of art [she] fell in love with.”