The William Carlos Williams Poetry Symposium Committee proudly announced the winners of the William Carlos Williams Poetry Symposium Young Poets Awards. Readings by winners of high school poetry contest for students from Bergen, Passaic, Morris, and Essex counties were held at the 2005 Symposium.
Poems were judged by poets, professors, and readers from Horace Mann School, where Williams attended high school and wrote his first poem. The Symposium worked closely on this contest with the directors of Kelly Writers House at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, where Dr. Williams studied medicine and met many of his literary friends, including Ezra Pound, H.D. (Hilda) Dolittle, and Marianne Moore. Kelly Writers House conducts Penn’s creative writing programs and hosts a public forum for poetry and fiction. Winning students read their poems at Kelly Writers House on September 25th, a week after the Symposium.
FIRST PRIZE: “God” by Mai Schwartz, Tenafly HS (Tenafly)
SECOND PRIZE: “Pears at the Glass Window” by Erica Rothman, Tenafly HS (Tenafly)
THIRD PRIZE: “Epilogue of Now” by Steven Liu, Millburn HS (Millburn)
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
“The Red Painting” by Rebecca Braun, Tenafly HS (Tenafly)
“Baking at 1:12am Instead of Doing the Five Page History Paper That’s Due in Seven Hours” by Andrew Belmont, Northern Highlands Regional HS (Allendale)
“The Pharmacist” by Jake Schneider, Chatham HS (Chatham)
“Inscriptions” by Morgan Wade, Northern Highlands Regional HS (Allendale)
“The Skin I’m In” by Regina Rodriguez, Teaneck HS (Teaneck)
“Systematic Beliefs” by Jamie MacGillis, Northern Highlands Regional HS (Allendale)
“Breaking Up” by Grace Hutchinson, Northern Highlands Regional HS (Allendale)
“Getting Born in Paterson, NJ” by Tess McCrea, Tenafly HS (Tenafly)
“Beautiful” by Katherine Ondrof, Becton Regional HS (E. Rutherford)
“nyc sunset” by Katie Hathaway, Rutherford HS (Rutherford)
“Faith, Fear and Failure” by Eliza Smith, Tenafly HS (Tenafly)
Photo: Peg Koetsch, Learning Insights
