Gazette staffer wins poetry prize

For the second year in a row, Sarah Sweeney of the Harvard Gazette has won a poetry prize from the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Memorial Fund. The fund encourages the work of new, young poets, and is open to writers under the age of 40. Sweeney was awarded $2,500.

Sweeney, who edits the Gazette’s books page, “Harvard Bound,” is a native of Greensboro, N.C. She received an M.F.A. in creative writing from Emerson College in Boston. For more information.