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 finalists! Their poems are published in a booklet that is distributed at the ceremony, as well as kept in the library’s permanent collection.
Middle School Division
Sydney Brown for “What Shall I Say” (Glen Urquhart School)
Emma Conway for “Forgettable” (Beverly Middle School)
Charlie Cook for “Through my Telescope” (Waring School)
Katie Daniels for “A CD considers its music” (Glen Urquhart School)
Anonymous for “some random poem I made part 2” (Glen Urquhart School)
Liana for “A Woman” (Shore Country Day School)
Rory Horan for “The phantom cat” (Waring School)
Eli Lapaix for “The boy from Rosario” (Waring School)
Bianca Loiacano for “Series of haikus” (Waring School)
Cornelia Sollins for “I Hate It Just As Much As You” (Waring School)
Cornelia Sollins for “Ode to Pointe” (Waring School)
Miya Tsuji for “An Ode to Soccer Fields” (Waring School)
High School Division
Destiny Albanese for “My Mother, My Father” (Northshore Recovery High School)
Skyler Bickmore for “The M&M Not Taken” (Waring School)
Arianna B. for “Ballad of Nicole Duennebier’s ‘Still Life With Meat Pile’” (Phillips Exeter Academy)
Amy Cai for “MATH” (Waring School)
Sabela de Haro Borras for “Dichotomy” (Waring School)
Scarlett for “A Photo Of Us” (Waring School)
Claire Fitzgerald for “learning” (Beverly High School)
Riley E. Michael for “The Bathroom Girls” (Beverly High School)
JJ Niemann for “The Dreamer” (Beverly High School)
Johnny Sheridan for “Sweet Dreams” (Waring School)
Johnny Sheridan for “Elegy for the Impermanent” (Waring School)
Michael Towne-Smith for “Pupa” (Waring School)
Colin Vellante for “Wood Doves” (Waring School)
Finalists will be invited to read their poems and winners will be announced at the Teen Poetry Reading and Awards Ceremony Wednesday, April 24, 2024. Cash prizes will be awarded in two age categories, grades 6-8 and grades 9-12. All finalists receive cash prizes, in varying levels based on their placement of Honorable Mention, Third, Second, and First Prize.
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.