Megan's Muse - Past Winners

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Past Years' First Prize Winners

2012 - Geena May, Jeffrey Weinberg

2011 - Sophie Isakowitz
2010 - Jake Hirsch
2009 - Billy Baker
2008 - Civia Stein
2007 - Matthew Mihal
2006 - Rachel Cohen
2005 - Allie Hirsch
2004 - Michelle Levine
2003 - Jeremy Greenberg
2002 - Sharon Levine
2001 - Saul Dorfman

2012 Winning Entries

Theme 2012

God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an
immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be
sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

2012 First Place Co-Winners

CO-WINNER: The Light

                -- Geena May

CO-WINNER: Understanding

God is mysterious to those that try to understand him
Yet a beacon of hope for those that need comfort
Try to understand him and you will be disappointed
Understand his teachings and you will be rewarded
Not a problem to be calculated or solved
But a mirror to see ourselves

     -- Jeffrey Weinberg -- Continued: 2012Jeffrey Weinberg - Understanding.pdf

2011 Winning Entries

Theme 2011

“If I am not for me who will be?

If am for myself alone, what am I?

And if not now, when?”

Hillel

Pirkei Avot 1:14

Megan's Muse Winner 2011: Sophie Isakowitz

Before the Moment Passes By

I can hear children crying.

I see a bird soaring swiftly in the night sky.

The smell of sweat and dirt fills the air.

Carts pass by little huts.

        --- Sophie Isakowitz -- Continued:
             Isakowits Sophie - Before the Moment Passes.pdf**

Honorable Mentions: Robyn Freidin and Brianna Rock

Robyn Freidin - Blurred Time

Reflections

If I am not for me, who will be?

Love for who you are will set you free

If I can't respect myself how can I expect others to either?

          --- Brianna Rock -- Continued: Rock Brianna - Reflections.pdf**

2010 Winning Entries

Theme 2010

An Eternal Window

In a garden I once heard

a song or an ancient blessing.

And above the dark trees

a window is always lit, in memory

of the face that looked out of it

and that face too

was in memory of another

lit window.

From:

The selected poetry of Yehuda Amichai/edited and translated from the Hebrew by Chana Bloch and Stephen Mitchell. Harper Collins: 1992.

Jake Hirsch: $500 first place prize

"Cycle" -- May 23, 2010 — A short film I made with stop-motion paper animation for Megan's muse. Enjoy! (Can't see video below? View on YouTube.)

Hannah Kaplan: $100 second place prize

Open Hearts

The sky turns grey as the rain clouds shift into view. It is drizzling now, a soft pitter-patter that soothes my mind as I sit and watch the world. The leaves bounce as tiny droplets land on their broad backs. The birds chirp mournfully, awaiting the sunshine’s return.

I do not know when I started to realize I had left the light on in my room.

--- Hannah Kaplan -- Continued: Entry 11 - Open Hearts.pdf**

Madeline Paul: $50 Honorable Mention

Listen to music: Madeline Paul -- Crystal Butterfly

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