Congratulations to all of the poets!
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recording of the 2007 Teen Poetry Reception (26.4MB)
Middle School Winners
- Life's Comedy Emmy Mai (1st place)
- Jet Line Connor Stuart (2nd place) pdf
- My Boring Backyard Christine Gencorelli (3rd place)
- Reader's Lamentation Rachel Abbott (honorable mention)
- Stream Detective Rachel Aldrich (honorable mention)
- School Paul Barretto (honorable mention) pdf
- My Mother'd Kill Me If She Knew Caitlin Burke (honorable mention) pdf
- Tomorrow is the Day Steven Geraci (honorable mention)
- D-Day Kurt Giffken (honorable mention)
- Big Grammy Arielle Gillette (honorable mention)
- Befuddled Jessica Leung (honorable mention) pdf
- Winter Stew Rachel Margolese (honorable mention)
- Life of a Wave Melissa Newton (honorable mention)
- My Little Sister Marcel Pawlowski (honorable mention)
- Fear? Or? Not? Casey Roberts (honorable mention) pdf
- The Tiger Ali Salvey (honorable mention)
- A Scientifical Description of Gum Gabriella Smith (honorable mention)
- Leaving You Alyssa Solomon (honorable mention) pdf
High School Winners
- noiseroom Fiona Rice (1st place)
- The Summer I Smoked Too Many Cigarettes Rebecca Park (2nd place)
- Happiness Ruthy Rickenbacker (3rd place) pdf
- Teen Zahra Bhaiwala (honorable mention)
- Dreams of Summer Betsy Cohen (honorable mention)
- I Wish I Was a Tree Leah Denison (honorable mention) pdf
- The Process of Seasonal Thinking Leah Denison (honorable mention) pdf
- Happily Ever After Rebecca Park (honorable mention)
- a current of good fortune Fiona Rice (honorable mention)
- Alan Sudhandra Sundakam (honorable mention)
For previous years' Teen Poetry Contests, see this page.