Leslie Ahlstrand ’12 was one of five undergraduates in Connecticut selected as a Poetry Circuit winner this year. The five students present their poetry at schools around the state. This performance took place at the Smith House on the campus of Trinity. The work of the winners of this prestigious competition, which began in 1968, is also published in Connecticut Review. Ahlstrand, a double major in Public Policy and Law and English, is the recipient of numerous writing awards, including the John Curtis Underwood Memorial Prize in Poetry, The Watkinson Creative Fellowship, the Academy of American Poets Prize, and the Alumnus Prize in Fiction.