Julia Paajanen
English (Creative Writing)
Poem: “My Convestanciance,” 2007

Near the beginning of Through the Looking-Glass, Alice stumbles upon a book containing a short poem called “Jabberwocky,” which features an assortment of words Carroll invented—many of which appeared later in The Hunting of the Snark and are now a part of the English language, such as chortle and galumph. Julia Paajanen’s intriguingly titillating ode includes numerous examples of these kinds of portmanteaus, which, as Humpty Dumpty described to Alice, have “two meanings packed up into one word.”