The Beverly Public Library offers an annual poetry contest for middle and high school students who live, or attend school, in Beverly.
Congratulations to this year’s winners! Their poems are published in a booklet that is kept in the library’s permanent collection.
Middle School Division
First Place
Meara Reeder for “Women’s Fight”
Second Place
Anonymous for “I Am, Now, I Don’t”
Third Place
Ella Barker for “Fur Elise”
Honorable Mention
Violet Acheson for “And I Think About Summer”
Aine Bartok for “Honest Poem”
Johan Carlson-Leir for “The man laying on the wall”
Hope Dobkowski for “ A Life Like the Ocean”
Lily Filloon for “The eraser”
Samuel Hammar for “Our Generations”
Norah Hart for “On Stage”
Zoe Schwartz for “Siblings” and “The Adopt-A-Nerd Project”
Miya Tsuji for “The Travel Radio”
High School Division
First Place
Ruo Xian for “Pantoum on Pantun”
Second Place
Lola Prendergast for “PLOWING POEM”
Third Place
Anonymous for “Stupid, Ugly, Dumb (at least, next to him)”
Honorable Mention
Leanna Dang for “Red Spider Lily”
Juliette Hale for “I’m blown away by your underlying presence”
Sorelle I. for “Tia Maria Estrada’s Empanadas”
Francisco Jarrin for “The Beauty of Change”
Addison Park for “Nap Away The Sorrows”
Abigail Peabody for “Fly”
Isabella Scherbarth for “Going Home”
Yishine Shi for “I once was a child”
Katherine Steinmetz for “Someday I’ll see your lipstick”
Evonny Wleh for “Growth of the girl”
For more information, contact Katie Nelson at 978-921-6062.
Thanks to the Friends of the Beverly Public Library and Joan Nelson whose generosity makes this contest possible.