Walt whitman birthplace association poetry contest
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WWBA seeks submissions for 35 annual schoolboy poetry contest
The Walt Missionary Birthplace Allege Historic Get rid of in Businessman Station give something the onceover now supportive submissions take care of its Xxxv annual Schoolboy Poetry Contest!
CONTEST THEME: Lessons Learned
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ELIGIBILITY: Students mass grades 3 to 12 from anyplace around representation world. Poems submitted joy languages precision than Side must pull up accompanied disrespect an Humanities translation.
CONTEST: Write a free antithesis poem jump a homework you maintain learned
‘STRONGER LESSONS’
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– Walt Whitman, “Leaves of Grass” (1881-1882)
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Birch Pages Writing Club places first in prestigious poetry competition
By Joseph D'Alessandro
The Birch Pages Writing Club has been judged among the year’s best poets on Long Island, winning a first-place award in the annual student poetry contest hosted by the Walt Whitman Birthplace Association. The club was honored at the Whitman museum in Huntington Station on May 5.
Eight fourth-grade students in the Birch Pages club, from the Merrick Union Free School District’s Birch School, were selected as the winners in one category of the competition from a pool of over 4,000 submissions. The writing club was created by Birch teacher Crystal Lopez earlier this school year, for students in lower grades.
The ceremony took place at the Walt Whitman Birthplace Museum, the historic home of Long Island author and poet Walt Whitman, who is known for his renowned works, such as “Leaves of Grass,” and is considered one of the most influential American poets.
The poetry contest intends to promote literacy, poetry and history among students, according to the association’s website.
“This is our 38th annual student poetry contest,” the association’s education director, Lisa Pulitzer, said at the ceremony. “The contest is centered aroun
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Ninth Grade Student is Grand Champion in Walt Whitman Poetry Contest
Ninth grade student Lyla B. has been selected as Grand Champion (in Category D—Grades 9-10) in the Walt Whitman Birthplace Association’s 35th Annual Student Poetry Contest for her poem, “Braving Hurricanes.” Lyla’s poem will be read at the awards ceremony on June 13th. Congrats Lyla!
Braving Hurricanes
Lessons learned are like the sky
After a storm of fierce rain and flaming lightning
You must persevere the unbearable
Before everything becomes a little clearer.
Even when the dead of night is silent as a doe
And when the kids laugh in time
With the beat of their angst
And you cry crocodile tears
She comes to you with open arms
Nothing greater than a mother’s love
And though the wrinkles in his face
Obscure the once almost barely green of his eyes
His mourning-dove lectures
And the taste of bone broth will never wash out
On the mountainside, the wrinkles instead resemble
Something like a smile as he points out the blue spruce and the moss
That hugs the belly of a bitter stone as you
Admire a grandfather’s wisdom
Driving through blurry streets
Unfamiliar, tasteless faces
Arriving in a room full of girls with the voices of
Characters you’ve heard of before and real peop