Donte Collins Archives - News and Media /news/tag/donte-collins/ Augsburg University Fri, 31 Jan 2020 16:56:13 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.5 Auggie earns “Most Promising Young Poet” national honor /news/2016/10/07/auggie-earns-most-promising-young-poet-national-honor/ Fri, 07 Oct 2016 19:58:41 +0000 http://www.augsburg.edu/news/?p=7240 Donte Collins ’18 was named the “Most Promising Young Poet” by the Academy of American Poets this fall. His poem, “what the dead know by heart,” previously won Augsburg’s John R. Mitchell Prize, which qualified him for the prestigious award. Collins is a theater major who is active in the local, regional, and national spoken ...

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Donte Collins, Augsburg College studentDonte Collins ’18 was named the “Most Promising Young Poet” by the Academy of American Poets this fall. His poem, “what the dead know by heart,” previously won Augsburg’s John R. Mitchell Prize, which qualified him for the prestigious award.

Collins is a theater major who is active in the local, regional, and national spoken word and poetry scene.

Collins told that he plans to use his $1,000 prize from the award to self-publish his first collection of poetry, a chapbook called “autopsies.”

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