Thank you for all your wonderful submissions to the 2024 Poetry Contest!
We will leave the poems up for entire year until 2025's contest, so everyone can enjoy them.
Happy reading!
Adult and Teen Category Prizes: 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place will receive a gift card to Scout's Coffee Bar & Mercantile in High Bridge, New Jersey. They will also receive a commemorative rosette award.
Children's Category Prizes: 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place will receive a gift card to Humdoo Ice Cream in Flemington, New Jersey. They will also receive a commemorative rosette award.
Thank you to these fantastic local businesses for supporting our community's poets!
"Launched by the Academy of American Poets in April 1996, National Poetry Month reminds the public that poets have an integral role to play in our culture and that poetry matters. Over the years, it has become the largest literary celebration in the world, with tens of millions of readers, students, K–12 teachers, librarians, booksellers, literary events curators, publishers, families, and—of course—poets, marking poetry's important place in our lives." - poets.org
Resources for Poets and Poetry Lovers:
All winners received a special award ribbon and a gift card to Scout’s Coffee Bar & Mercantile in High Bridge. Hunterdon County Library staff members judged each entry anonymously – the judges did not have any names of the poets. Our judges put a lot of thought behind this work, and we appreciate their efforts!
All winners received a special award ribbon and a gift card to Scout’s Coffee Bar & Mercantile in High Bridge. Hunterdon County Library staff members judged each entry anonymously – the judges did not have any names of the poets. Our judges put a lot of thought behind this work, and we appreciate their efforts!
All winners receive a special award ribbon and a gift card to Humdoo Ice Cream in Flemington. Hunterdon County Library staff members judged each entry anonymously – the judges did not have any names of the poets. Our judges put a lot of thought behind this work, and we appreciate their efforts!
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