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
Emma Jae Colotti for “Only One Is Banned”
Second Place
Connor McGrane for “The Year the world shut down”
Third Place
Abraham Finn for “The Zooming Goat”
Honorable Mention
Hope Dobkowski for “The River and the Pond”
Sophia Gurung for “the end”
Wren for “Into the Reef”
Nayeli Lohnes for “Deportation Desperation”
Scarlett Maxwell for “On a boat on a lake on a warm summer day”
Salma Reda for “Ode to Microphones”
Meara Reeder for “Freedom’s Call” and “Still Standing”
Bear for “The Backyard”
Camille Schwartz for “Blissful Escape”
High School Division
First Place
Jessalyn Enamorado for “Ode to the Warm Lamp in the Corner of My Room”
Second Place
Eliana S. Wright for “Too Good For Their Jokes”
Third Place
Gwen Zappasodi for “Cutting Carrots”
Honorable Mention
Lauren Conant for “Ice Cream and Heels”
Lillian. A. Counts for “I have long hair”
Magdelyn Dalton for “Just a Rumor”
Alaina Evers for “Where I’m From”
Lucy Falk for “Newton (101 Madison)”
River Lawrence Gauthier for “The Endless Night”
Arlo Kinsey for “Summer”
Yishine Shi for “Déjà vu”
Hazel Streb for “Family Dinner”
Caleb Sylvester for “A Photograph of Me – 2013”
Ella Wanstall for “bringer of death”
For more information, contact Katie Nelson at 978-921-6062 or knelson@noblenet.org.
Thanks to the Friends of the Beverly Public Library and Joan Nelson whose generosity makes this contest possible.