Cambridge Public Library Announces Poetry Contest

Press release from the City of Cambridge:

May 29, 2021

Each year, the Cambridge Public Library hosts a poetry contest for students in grades K-8 who live or attend school in Cambridge. We are delighted to announce the winners of this year's awards below. This year, instead of our customary awards ceremony and reading, we are sharing the students' poems with the Cambridge community by posting them at four locations around the city:

• Joan Lorentz Park outside the Main Library, 449 Broadway, along the playground fence
• Central Square Branch Library, 45 Pearl Street, Franklin Street side windows
• Valente Branch Library, 826 Cambridge Street, windows overlooking the reading garden, Berkshire Street side
• Peabody School/O'Neill Branch Library, 70 Rindge Avenue, along the fence We hope you will visit all four sites to see this year's 69 winning poems selected from the nearly 700 wonderful entries!

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