2010 HIGH SCHOOL POETRY CONTEST
The first place prize (two passes to the Festival and $50) was awarded to Rebecca Caruso of Wellington, a senior at Wellington High School, for her poem, Bayou Blues.The four runners-up, who each received a Festival pass and $25, were:
June Sallen of Lake Worth, a ninth grader at Grandview Preparatory School, for her poem, Gold Fish.Kate Yarborough of Wellington, a senior at Wellington High School, for her poem, There’s Always the Preliminary Flirtatious Conversation.Mandy Bartmess of West Palm Beach, a sophomore at Alexander W. Dreyfoos School of the Arts, for her poem, How to Unbreak Broken.Tom Budz of Boynton Beach, a freshman at Pope John Paul II High School, for his poem, If.
The High School Poetry Contest is open to Palm Beach County public and private high school students, and was judged by Dr. Jeff Morgan, of Lynn University’s Department of English.
Poems by the winners of the Fifth Annual Palm Beach County High School Poetry Contest were:
. The contest is a unique opportunity for high school students to be recognized and participate in the annual festival and to learn from taking their work out of the classroom or notebook and sending it out into the world.
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