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2011 Pharos Poetry Competition Winners

The fifth annual Pharos Poetry Competition awards were made in April. This year's winners are:

First prize, $500: Sarah Leeper of the Class of 2012 at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University for her poem, "Breaking Bad News."

Second prize, $250: Emily Silverman of the Class of 2014 at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine for her poem, "Anatomy."

Third prize, $100: Angela Jiang of the Class of 2014 Ohio State University College of Medicine for her poem, "A Reminder."

Honorable mentions, $75 each: Sarah Rapp of the Class of 2012 at the University of Texas Medical School at Houston for her poem, "First Chair," and Krishna Sury of the Class of 2013 at the State University of New York Downstate Medical Center College of Medicine for her poem, "Broken."

Winning poems will be published in future issues of The Pharos.