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Local Residents Win 12th Annual Poetry Contest
The Charlotte Miller Simon Poetry Contest is sponsored by the Ardmore Library and awards cash prizes in three divisions.
The Ardmore Library will celebrate the winners of the 12th Annual Charlotte Miller Simon Poetry Contest on Sunday, March 12 with a program that includes the reading of all of the winning poems by the poets themselves. Families and friends of the winners will be joined by members of the community, including representatives from the Lower Merion Township Board of Commissioners, to acknowledge the talents of the winners from each of the categories: children, teen, and adult.
For the last twelve years, the Ardmore Library has celebrated the love poetry fostered by Charlotte Miller Simon through the annual poetry competition in her name. The contest is generously sponsored through and endowment established by her family and with prize money funded by Jonathan and Christina Miller.
This year, participation continued to be impressive. The total number of poems submitted totaled 696. In the children's division, nineteen schools were represented with 469 entries. The teen division had 185 entries from seventeen schools. The adult division had 42 entries.
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The public is invited to the celebration on Sunday, March 12 in the Lower Merion Township Building starting at 2pm.
CHILDREN'S DIVISION WINNERS:
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1. Elijah Nichols, "Eternal" - Merion Elementary
2. Tessa Early, "The Night" - Chestnutwold Elementary
3. Lila Carter, "The Man on the Moon" - Chestnutwold Elementary
Honorable Mentions:
Emma Barnes, "The Place Where Thoughts Are" - The Baldwin School
Sophia Casale, "The Wolf" - Bala Cynwyd Middle School
Adeline Drew, "Flowers" - Chestnutwold Elementary
TEEN DIVISION WINNERS:
1. Manar Albarakati, "What My Mama Said" - Harriton High School
2. Guanjie Cheng, "Poems" - Bala Cynwyd Middle School
3. Nile Andah, "The Perfect You" - Waldron Mercy Academy
Honorable Mentions:
Mark Brennan, "The Ladder that Controls Our Lives" - Haverford Middle School
Nemeisha Meekins, "Inferior Love" - Harriton High School
Oron Barash, "To Write a Sonnet" - Lower Merion High School
ADULT WINNERS:
1. Michael Morel, "Before Meaning"
2. Uddipana Goswami, "Fall Colors: Yellow"
3. Barnett Kamen, "I Never Had to Put Sugar in My Coffee"
Honorable Mentions:
Naomi Sved, "Paper of Plastic"
Brian Mays, "2008"
