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Memorial Hall Library's Second Annual
Last year's
First Annual Teen Poetry
Contest drew almost 150 entries. This
year we had over 300! Thanks to everyone
who participated!
Special thanks go to our poet-judges
Jeffrey Harrison and
Mark Schorr for all their hard work in
reading and evaluating so many entries.
Congratulations to this year's winners!
To hear recordings of
some of these poems being recited, visit
this page.
If you have a poem you'd like posted on
our web site,
let us know!
About the Judges
 Jeffrey
Harrison
Jeffrey Harrison has written several
books of poetry. They include
The Singing
Underneath,
Signs of
Arrival, and
Feeding the
Fire. His book
The Names of
Things: New and Selected Poems
will be coming out shortly. Another
book, entitled
Incomplete Knowledge, will be out
in November.
Jeffrey has received numerous
fellowships and prizes, including two
Pushcart Prizes. His poems have been
published in many magazines including
The New Yorker, The New Republic, The
Paris Review, and The Yale Review. He
has taught at several universities and
was the Murray Writer-in-Residence at
Phillips Academy for three years.
Mark
Schorr
Mark Schorr is the Executive Director
of the Robert Frost Foundation (www.frostfoundation.org).
The mission of the Foundation reads: The
Robert Frost Foundation is a non-profit
organization dedicated to focusing
attention on the work and life of the
poet Robert Frost and the connection he
has to the city of Lawrence,
Massachusetts. The Foundation is
comprised of local artists, citizens,
scholars, and writers that seek to
provide a forum for discussing Frost and
his works.
 Frost
Foundation Hoots are held at Café Azteca
in Lawrence. The next one, Tuesday, May
9, at 7pm, is A
Poetry
Magazine Hoot, featuring Megan
Grumbling and Deborah Warren followed by
an open microphone.
Mark is also a published poet and
currently teaches American Literature at
Cambridge College.
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