Council Rock Senior Named Runner-Up In High School Poet Of The Year Contest

BUCKS COUNTY, PA --A Council Rock South senior was named first runner-up in the 2017 Bucks County High School Poet of the Year contest. Council Rock High School South senior Lucia Mogilyanksy was selected as first runner-up in the 30th annual contest.

Megan Lunny, a sophomore at Central Bucks High School East, was selected as the winner. 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 young poets 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, the new Bucks County High School Poet of the year, 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.

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.