The Sam Ella Dukes Memorial Poetry Prize

The Sam Ella Dukes Memorial Poetry Prize honors the memory of Sam Ella Dukes, mother of a faculty member in the English Department at The University of Akron. Mrs. Dukes taught English in the public schools of Florida and South Carolina for over forty years. The prize will be awarded each April by a committee of English Department faculty members appointed by the Chair of the Department of English. The prize will be open to any undergraduate or graduate student and will be for the amount of $100.