CB East Sophomore Named Bucks County High School Poet Of The Year

DOYLESTOWN, PA --There's a new High School Poet of the Year in Bucks County, and she'll be honored during a reception this Sunday.

Megan Lunny, a sophomore at Central Bucks High School East, has been named the 2017 Bucks County High School Poet of the Year. Lunny, 15, from Doylestown was the top winner out of 275 entries in the 30th annual contest.

Lunny won a $300 prize and will be honored at a poetry reading and reception at 3 p.m. Sunday, April 30 on the college’s Newtown campus. The event is free and attendees will receive an anthology containing the winning poems and a poem from each entrant, Writes of Passage Vol. 7.

Lunny is a columnist for the “reality” teen section of the Bucks County Courier Times and Intelligencer.

“A self-proclaimed nerd, I am most at home in a library and will probably someday hold the Guinness World Record for Longest Time Spent with Nose in Book,” she wrote in her profile. “If by some miracle I manage to survive high school, you will find me in New York, laboring away the days as a journalist and novelist.”

Contest judges were the current and most recent Bucks County Poets Laureate, Laren McClung (2016) and Tyler Kline (2015). They blindly judged three poems submitted by each contestant, and selected the winner, three runners up, and a list of finalists, according to information from the college.

Council Rock High School South senior Lucia Mogilyanksy was named first runner-up. Brooke Gallagher, a junior at Central Bucks High School South, was second runner-up; and Karen Golovko, a senior at Council Rock South, was third runner-up.

The 2017 Bucks County High School Poet of the Year reading and reception take place from 3 to 5 p.m. Sunday, April 30, in the Orangery building on the campus at 275 Swamp Rd., Newtown.