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2009-2010 High School Poetry Contests
Sponsored by Gannon University and the Erie County Poet Laureate Initiative

 Two contests: one for students in grades 9 through 12 who live outside of Erie

County, Pennsylvania, and one for students in grades 9 through 12 who live in

 Erie County, Pennsylvania.

  

 

Rules

 

• Each student may enter up to 3 poems, totaling no more than 6 pages.

• Poems may be about any topic and in any form and must be the original work

of the student.

• Poems must be typed.

• The student’s name, address (including county), phone number, and grade in

school must appear in the top left corner of each poem.

• The student’s school, school’s address, school’s phone number, and teacher’s

name must appear in the top right corner.

• Poems will not be returned; students should not send their only copies.

• Poems must be postmarked by February 1, 2010.

 

 

 

 

Students who live outside of Erie County, Pennsylvania, should mail their poems to:

 

 

 

Berwyn Moore, Associate Professor of English

 

Attn: Gannon University High School Poetry Contest

 

Gannon University

 

109 University Square

 

Erie, PA 16541

 

 

 

Students who live in Erie County, Pennsylvania, should mail their poems to:

 

 

 

Berwyn Moore, Associate Professor of English

 

Attn: Erie County High School Poetry Contest

 

Gannon University

 

109 University Square

 

Erie, PA 16541 



2009 High School Poetry Contest Winners












Place



Name/Address



School/Address



Title of Poem





1st 



Amelia Levchenko



Buffalo Grove High
Buffalo Grove, IL 



"Strawberry Pie"





2nd



Alessandra Schultz



School of the Arts
San Francisco, CA  



"Dandelion Faces"





3rd  



Jane Youngberg



Educational Center for the Arts
New Haven, CT 



"Double Abecedarian These Days"





Honorable Mention



Monica Landy



Tenafly High School
Tenafly, NJ



"The Morning After"





Honorable Mention



Luka Glinsky



PA Homeschooler's Accrd. Agency, Kittaning, PA



"Rainstorm"





Honorable Mention



Nai Lai



Troy High School                     Troy, MI  



"Awaiting Epiphany"





Honorable Mention



Elizabeth Beam



Gilmour Academy
Gates Mills, OH  



"Edge"





Honorable Mention



Maggie Millner



Cherry Valley-Springfield Cntl. Sch. Cherry Valley, NY



"Ode to the Teakettle"





Honorable Mention



Christine Richin



Upper Saddle River, NJ  



"Whiskers"







Honorable Mention



Amelia Levchenko



Bufffalo Grove High School     Buffalo Grove, IL  



"Home Cooking"





Honorable Mention



Danielle Charette



Coginchaug Regional High Sch. Durham, CT   



"Other People's Lit Windows"





Honorable Mention



Kelly McBride-Head



School of the Arts                          Rochester, NY



"My Grandfather"







Honorable Mention



Alessandra Schmitz



School of the Arts                     San Francisco, CA 



"Faith in Sunday Dinners"





Honorable Mention



Eleanor Ellis



South Salen High School           Salem, OR 



"Requirements for Poetry"





Honorable Mention



Seamus Kirwan



Gilford High School 
Gilford, NH 



"The Pen"





Honorable Mention



Emma Brooker



Collegiate Academy
Erie, PA 



"The Broken Piano"





Honorable Mention



Sarah Wasilak



Livingston High Schooll
Livingston, NJ 



"When No One is Watching"





Honorable Mention



Tina Hanse Miller



Ransom Everglades School Coconut Grove, FL 



"Entropy"





Honorable Mention



Alexandria Kim



Northern Highlands Reg. High Sch.
Allendale, NJ 



"Time in Its Augmentation and Diminution"





 



 

















 










 




 





 



 



 



 








 

































 



 



 



 

			 
		

		
 

	


	

				
		
 

		

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