Starting Monday, our annual poetry contest for students (and if teachers/staff would like to participate) will begin. I will be asking students to submit their poems to my email. We are a small school; the 3 top poets receive a gift card. If it has been too difficult to choose the top 3, I have asked English teachers to help with voting. The contest will run until April 30th.
Last year, I created a March Madness Poetry and started with 16 poems(64 would have been way too many!)
I set up brackets on a wall and students and teachers/staff voted daily. It was quite successful.
Popular High School poems from the past
- "I wandered Lonely as a Cloud" by William Wordsworth
- "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" by Robert Frost
- "Fire and Ice" by Robert Frost
- "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost
- "Ode to the West Wind" by Percy Bysshe Shelley
- "If" by Rudyard Kipling
- "To an Athlete Dying Young" by A. E. Housman
- "A Red, Red Rose" by Robert Burns
- "Annabel Lee" by Edgar Allan Poe
- "A Dream Within a Dream" by Edgar Allan Poe
Last year, Crossing the Bar By Alfred Lord Tennyson and I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings By Maya Angelou were the finalists, the winner was Crossing the Bar(students read this during Sophomore English and it was a popular choice!)
Hope this helps, reach out if you'd like, I'd be happy to help!
Stay healthy and don't forget to laugh every now and again!
Nikki Esposito
Westbrook HS