Anthology of the
William C. Banks Award Winners

Warning Labels: A Comparison of Two Opinions

Christopher Taylor/Best Essay: English 101
Gordon Thomas

What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You: Gender-Exclusive Language in English

Elizabeth Alford/Best Essay: English 102
Jennie Nelson

On Literary Literacy

Ryan Robertson/Best Essay: Core Literature
Joy Passanante (English 257, Literature of Western Civilization)

Struggling with a History of Capitalism in Toni Morrison’s Tar Baby

Sean Campbell/Best Essay: Lower Level Literature for Majors
Walter Hesford (English 295, Seminar in Literary Studies)

The Lady of the Lentils: A Play

Mark Thomas Deming/Best Poem: Lower Level
Joy Passanante (English 291, Creative Writing: Poetry)

Stain

Adam E. H. Wilson/Best Story: Lower Level
Tina Foriyes (English 292, Creative Writing: Fiction)

The Train Rolls On

Lukas A. Bryson/Best Essay: Advanced Prose Writing
Marti Mihalyi (English 208, Personal and Exploratory Writing)

The Dual Dynamic: An Exploration of the Author/Narrator Relationship in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Holly Riedelbach/Best Essay: 300-Level Literature
David Barber (English 343, Survey of American Literature)

Phlox of Sheep

Jennifer C. Pemberton/Best Poem: Advanced Level
Tina Foriyes (English 391, Intermediate Poetry Writing)

Mister

Shawn Rider/Best Story: Advanced Level
Tina Foriyes (English 492, Advanced Fiction Writing)

The Law of the Father and the Importance of Promise in Lucius Junius Brutus

Patricia Mayburry-Thomas/Best Essay: 400-Level Literature
Stephan Flores (English 495, Literary Criticism)

My Mother’s Black Hair

Debra Hieronymus/Best Poem: Graduate Level
Joy Passanante (English 597, Practicum: Teaching Poetry)

The Sun That Moves: Contrasting Views of Light Cast in Wallace Stevens’ "The Common Life’ and "Of Hartford in a Purple Light"

Eric Wahl/Best Essay: Graduate Level
Ron McFarland (English 570, Studies in 20^th Century British and American Literature)