Greetings! Apologies for the earlier confusion, but here are the UN International School haiku contest winners from our featured student poets of the month, announced last weekend in New York. I’d like to thank so many of you for supporting another year of our “Student Haiku Poet of the Month” feature, wherein we celebrate promising young poets from The Paideia School in Atlanta each month with examples of their poetry and some of their thoughts about haiku.
This monthly treat is made possible by the efforts of Tom Painting, an award-winning haiku poet and teacher or former teacher of these wonderful young writers. [Click here for a post about Tom from my blog in 2013.]
Several of them recently won awards in a big international contest – the 2015 Student Haiku Contest hosted by The United Nations International School, the Northeast Council of Teachers of Japanese, and the Permanent Mission of Japan to the United Nations.
Of our featured poets from this year and last, the following students were recognized in this year’s competition:
First place, Junior High division - Olivia Graner
creak of the door
the attic's smell
floods the hallway
©Olivia Graner. All rights reserved.
[Click here for Olivia’s Student Poet of the Month feature.]
Honorable mention, Junior High division - Cole McCord
spring cleaning
the smell
of expired milk
©Cole McCord. All rights reserved.
[Click here for Cole’s Student Poet of the Month feature.]
Second place, High school division - Marisa Schwartz
boardwalk
the taste of the ocean
in a pretzel
©Marisa Schwartz. All rights reserved.
[Click here for Marisa’s Student Poet of the Month feature.]
Third place, High School division - Emma Jones
sliding over
grandma's rough hands
soap bubbles
©Emma Jones. All rights reserved.
[Click here for Emma’s Student Poet of the Month feature.]
Paideia had winners in the elementary division and several more honorable mentions in the junior high/high school divisions. Congratulations to all these young poets, and hats off to each student who entered from all over the world.
The judge for English poems for the Elementary, Middle School, High School, and Teacher categories was John Stevenson . Submissions in the English Division came from 19 different schools/programs in the US and around the world. Finalists came from schools in New York, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, New Jersey, and also from Belgium, Kenya, and Japan.
This monthly treat is made possible by the efforts of Tom Painting, an award-winning haiku poet and teacher or former teacher of these wonderful young writers. [Click here for a post about Tom from my blog in 2013.]
Several of them recently won awards in a big international contest – the 2015 Student Haiku Contest hosted by The United Nations International School, the Northeast Council of Teachers of Japanese, and the Permanent Mission of Japan to the United Nations.
Of our featured poets from this year and last, the following students were recognized in this year’s competition:
First place, Junior High division - Olivia Graner
creak of the door
the attic's smell
floods the hallway
©Olivia Graner. All rights reserved.
[Click here for Olivia’s Student Poet of the Month feature.]
Honorable mention, Junior High division - Cole McCord
spring cleaning
the smell
of expired milk
©Cole McCord. All rights reserved.
[Click here for Cole’s Student Poet of the Month feature.]
Second place, High school division - Marisa Schwartz
boardwalk
the taste of the ocean
in a pretzel
©Marisa Schwartz. All rights reserved.
[Click here for Marisa’s Student Poet of the Month feature.]
Third place, High School division - Emma Jones
sliding over
grandma's rough hands
soap bubbles
©Emma Jones. All rights reserved.
[Click here for Emma’s Student Poet of the Month feature.]
Paideia had winners in the elementary division and several more honorable mentions in the junior high/high school divisions. Congratulations to all these young poets, and hats off to each student who entered from all over the world.
The judge for English poems for the Elementary, Middle School, High School, and Teacher categories was John Stevenson . Submissions in the English Division came from 19 different schools/programs in the US and around the world. Finalists came from schools in New York, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, New Jersey, and also from Belgium, Kenya, and Japan.