Check out these stellar essays written by the most recent winners of the Poorvu Center Essay Contest:
Contest Winners 2022-2024
“Asking Her to Stay: A Close Reading of Elizabeth Bishop’s ‘The Shampoo,’” by Simon Billings ’23
“City of Children,” by Mia Rose Kohn ’24
“Why I Won’t Be an Investment Banker,” by Nick Liu ’27
“The Role of Music, Women, and Wine at Symposia,” by Hannah Rubin ’27
“Driving Moods,” by Ece Serdaroglu ’27
“Yale’s Courtyards: Architectural Exclusion and Town-Gown Relations,” by Elias Theodore ’27
“SpeechEasy: a “hearing aid” for stutterer,” by Kayla Yup ’25