The Lake Placid Institute has announced the 2010 Great Adirondack Young People’s Poetry Contest winners for poets in grades 1-12 throughout the Adirondack region. The winning poems were selected by Theo Hummer, a visiting professor of English at St. Lawrence University who has taught creative writing, composition, and cultural studies in a Czech cigarette factory, at two northeastern liberal arts colleges and one Ivy League university, and at the maximum-security men’s prison in Auburn, NY. Her poetry has been featured in Vox, Sentence, Equilibrium, The Indiana Review, Best New Poets 2006, and on Verse.com. She is the daughter of the poet and musician T.R. Hummer.
All of the winning poems will be included in this year’s poetry booklet “Words From the Woods” and will also be published on the Institute’s website. The awards ceremony honoring the winners will take place in Lake Placid at the Lake Placid Center of the Arts on Sunday, May 2nd at 3:00 p.m.
This year the Lake Placid Institute offered four scholarships to high school students for the Young Writer’s Conference, a spring writing workshop specifically for high school students that takes place this May on the beautiful campus of Champlain College in Burlington, VT. For dedicated young writers, it is a chance to meet others who share their passion and to study the craft with some of the area’s most celebrated authors and teachers. The scholarship winners are:
Margaret Smith, “Lamas”
Age 14, Grade 9
Long Lake Central School
Teacher — M. Farrell
Alex Steele, “I owe my success”
Age 16, Grade 10
Westport Central School
Teacher – Mr. Gibbs
Una Creedon-Carey, “Beige & Blue”
Age 17, Grade 11
Plattsburgh High School
Teacher — Dr. Demarse
Larissa O’Neil, “Somber Blaze”
Age 17, Grade 12
Galway High School
Teacher — Mrs. McDonald
This year’s Great Adirondack Poetry Contest winners are:
Grade 1
Theadora Welch – “Worm Hands”
Bailey Avenue Elementary School
Teacher – Mrs. Bullis
Grace Wilson – “Snowflakes”
Keene Central School
Teacher – Mrs. LaVallee
Harvey Runyon – “I Wish I Had a Dog”
Keene Central School
Teacher – Mrs. Jacques
Grade 2
Emrys Ellis – “Cascade #2”
Keene Central School
Teacher – Mrs. Jacques
Cedar Jones – “Cedar”
Keene Central School
Teacher – Mrs. LaVallee
Maygan Robinson – “Winter”
Wells Central School
Teacher – Mrs. Persch
Grade 3
Ben Molloy – “This is all wrong”
Queensbury Elementary
Teacher – Miss. Shapiro
Sophia Loiacono – “The Bad Things About Sledding”
Queensbury Elementary
Teacher – Ms. Shapiro
Noah El-Remawi-Fine – “Changes”
Keene Central School
Teacher – Mrs. Hooper
Grade 4
John Custodio – “Shadow”
Lake George Elementary
Teacher – Ms. Loonan
Isabel Bullis – “Forest Dream”
Constableville Elementary
Teacher – Mrs. Flansburg
Julia Dickison-Frevola – “Autumn”
Lake George Elementary
Teacher – Ms. Loonan
Grade 5
Zach Coolidge – “Animals are Free”
AuSable Elementary
Teacher – Mrs. Forrence
Anthony Cardenas – “White”
Lake George Elementary
Teacher – Ms. Loonan
Stephan Peryea, “Fall”
Northern Adirondack Central School
Teacher -Mrs. Peryea
Grade 6
Sophie Morelli- “The Vacuum”
Lake Placid Middle School
Teacher – Ms. Crawford
Johanna Mohrs –“Flower of Beauty”
Petrova Middle School
Teacher – Mrs. Orelan
Chris Williams – “My Perfect Sunset”
Lake Placid Middle High
Teacher – Ms. Crawford
Grade 7
Elyssa Valeutin – “Christmas Day”
Saranac Lake Middle School
Teacher – Ms. Reyell
Jacinda Riggs – “Winter”
Saranac Lake Middle School
Teacher — Ms. Reyell
Cassandra Hough – “The Nobody”
Saranac Lake Middle School
Teacher – Ms. Reyell
Grade 8
Megan Maloy – “Electric Fence”
Moriah Central School
Teacher —- Mr. Klingenberg
Derek Petro – “The Forest”
Moriah Central School
Teacher — Mr. Klingenberg
Courtney Baker – “Ode to my Sweatshirt”
Saranac Lake Middle School
Teacher — Ms. Reyell
Grade 9
Margaret Smith – “Llamas”
Long Lake Central
Teacher — M. Farrell
Maggie Rose-McCandlish – “July Dusk”
Lake Placid Middle High School
Teacher — Mr. Ellis
Michaela Courson – “Where I’m From”
AuSable Valley Central School
Teacher — Mr. Gottlob
Grade 10
Alex Steele, “I owe my success”
Westport Central School
Teacher – Mr. Gibbs
Mimi Miller – “The Rope”
Lake Placid High School
Teacher — Mrs. Spicer
Lucy Mitchell – “Icicles Hanging from Broken Branches”
Lake Placid High School
Teacher — Mrs. Spicer
Grade 11
Una Creedon-Carey – “Beige & Blue”
Plattsburgh High School
Teacher — Dr. Demarse
Kagan Rice – “Ode to My Jacket”
Keene Central School
Teacher — Ms. McCabe
Greta L.A. Zarro – “The Girl on the Silk”
Lake Placid High School
Teacher — Mr. Gotham
Grade 12
Larissa O’Neil – “Somber Blaze”
Galway High School
Teacher — Mrs. McDonald
Kimberly Hughes – “What He Wanted”
Westport Central School
Teacher — Mr. Gibbs
Sarah Matrazzo – “God’s Dead Skin”
Schulverville Central School
Teacher – Ms. Sorrentino
Shelby Dolback – “Same place, two different worlds”
Crowne Point Central
Teacher—Mrs. Charron
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