Annual Poetry Contest

2022 Theme: Summer!

Interpret the theme as broadly as you like! Write about a summer memory, a summer vacation, summer activities, weather, or nature! Maybe you want to write about a summer adventure or summer camp. Use your imagination!

MOST CREATIVE USE OF RHYTHM

Grades 6-8
Winner: Ruth Zhuang (Grade 7)

Winning poem: "Summer"

"...

Then

The sky wheezes

Thunderstorms

Lightning flashes

Rain pours

..."

Most Creative Use of Imagery

Grades 2-5

Winner: Nathan Mamallan (Grade 3, Foster city Elementary School, California)
Winning Poem: "Mystical World"

"...

Wondrous water droplet fall
Cave spiders cackling with misery
You unravel a mystery of life and death…"

Grades 6-8
Winner: Jonathan Li (Grade 7, California)

Winning Poem: "Summer Sunset"

"...

The sky is swirly caramel with vanilla

encased in a dark blue cup.

The ground is like matcha

and there sits a single cherry

atop the dessert.

..."

Most Creative Use of Sound

Winner: Ziva Ye (Grade 6, )

Winning Poem: "Summer"

"...

The sound of the airplane

WHIRR

The juice of the watermelon splashing in the pitcher

The tang of lemonade on my tongue

..."

Most Creative Use of Rhyme

Grades 6-8
Winner: (Isabel Chen, Grade 7, Minnetonka Middle School East, MN)

Winning poem: "Feelings of Summer"

"...

I like sitting on the hillsides,

under apple trees.

Writing in my notebook,

and napping as I please.

..."

Honorable Mention

Scarlett Yi (Grade 5) A Paper's interesting story. Newman Elementary School in Needham, MA

Ivy Gao (Grade 2) "Summer".