The Young Adult Department of the East Greenbush Community Library is pleased to announce the winners of the annual Teen Poetry Contest. We received 45 entries from students in sixth through twelfth grades from all over the capital region. TAG and TAG Jr. members judged the contest using an anonymous mathematical process. We removed the authors’ names from each of the poems before judging and gave each poem a numerical ranking from 1-10. We then averaged the rankings to find the winners. The first place winner is Emy Blohm, 6th grade, with her poem titled “As a Rose”. The second place winner is also Emy Blohm with her poem titled “Who I Am.” In third place is Ansley Chlastawa, 10th grade, with her poem called “Could It Be?” All of the submitted poems have been on display in the Teen Area of the library for National Poetry Month in April.
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