THE STEGER is a window
a hope... a wrap or rap...
covering or uncovering...
possibilities... is the best of us...
our hearts on our sleeves...
our heads in the clouds... our feet on eggs...
A spice—let's taste it...
A step—let's dance it...
A poem—let's sing it...
The future—Let's embrace it.



THE STEGER Committee

Katie Ammons
Student Athlete Academic Support

Fred D’Aguiar
Professor, Creative Writing, and Gloria D. Smith Professor of Africana Studies

Jean Elliott
Communications Manager, College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences

Ed Falco
Professor of English and Director of Creative Writing

Virginia Fowler
Professor of English and Director of Literature, Language and Cultural

Nikki Giovanni
University Distinguished Professor of English

Paul Lancaster
Broadcast Media Coordinator

Ennis McCrery
Graduate Student Ombudsperson

Kevin McDonald
Vice President for Equity and Inclusion

Aileen Murphy
Assistant Director of Creative Writing

Terry Papillon
Director, University Honors Program

Welcome!


The Steger Award committee welcomes you to the Steger Award Homepage!

From entry guidelines to poems by past winners and photos from the award ceremony, this webpage will offer both current news on the contest and an archive of previous Steger awards.

We hope that you will return to this page as you plan, write, and submit your poem.
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