Matthew T. Mason, a graduate student in English at the University of California, Davis, is the winner of the 16th annual Celeste Turner Wright Prize Competition. Mason was awarded $100 for his poems, "In Nestucca Sanctuary," "Lakes," and "To Sleep." Honorable mentions were awarded to Jason Marak and Stephen H. Nii, both of whom are senior undergraduate students at UC Davis majoring in English. The competition is designed to encourage the artistic and creative development of student poets, and is open to all UC Davis students. The contest, sponsored locally by Wright, is part of a national contest held annually by the Academy of American Poets and is one of 181 such local competitions in the United States. Judges for this year's contest were Wright, a professor emerita of English at UC Davis, and Peter Hays and Richard Levin, both professors of English at UC Davis. Wright, the first woman to become a professor at UC Davis, chaired the Department of English for 27 years. She has published three volumes of poetry: "Etruscan Princess," "A Sense of Place" and "Seasoned Timber." Her memoir, "University Woman," was published in 1981.