Corp. All Rights Reserved. Dekoff, Kalamazoo sophomore, and Hughes, North Carolina graduate student, were the winners of the first CM LIFE-sponsored Student Poetry Contest. Writing poetry can in part be trying to capture something and make sense out of it, Hughes said. For Dekoff, writing has a calming affect.
Poetry is therapy.
Poetry open your mind to what's going on in your life, subconsciously. As a child, Dekoff aspired to become a novelist, spending her time writing long short stories. Alosha Dekoff,Kalamazoo sophmore,was one of the students to win the CM LIFE-sponsored Student Poetry Contest. You never know what you're going to do until you're doing it. Hughes began writing rhyming poetry in early adolescence, inspired by writers such as William Shakespeare and Alfred Lord Tennyson.