Students Honored in Neenah Public Library Poetry Contest
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A total of 13 students from various grade levels were honored for their creative writing in the annual Neenah Public Library Proces Poetry Prize Contest.
The Proces Poetry Prize is named in honor of now-retired Library Director Stephen Proces, who strongly supported children's services, programming and early literacy. The contest is held every April and is promoted through Neenah Joint School District and surrounding communities for children through 12th grade. Entrants come from students in the District as well as students in surrounding communities’ schools, and home schoolers.
Poems can be written at any time during the school year with the deadline for submissions being April 30 of each year. The winning poems are chosen because of their unique ability to express or evoke an emotional response in the reader. Winning students receive a certificate and a book of their choosing. The contest is conducted and supported by the Neenah Public Library Board of Trustees.
Below are the winners of this year’s contest with their 2017-18 grade level and school attended:
Grade 1: Ruth Hollingsworth (Lakeview) – “Ice Cream”
Grade 2: Ryleigh Knapp (Wilson) – “In This World”
Grade 2: Declan Epley (Wilson) – “Drop Slide”
Grade 2: Ian McAvoy (Wilson) – “Books love whoever opens them”
Grade 4: Kara Yang (Hoover) – “Sparkle”
Grade 4: Lucy Fiedler – “A Bird Restaurant”
Grade 5: Alex Yang (Lakeview) – “Beautiful”
Grade 6: Evelyn Mielke (Horace Mann) – “Summer Love”
Grade 7: Jasilyn Griesbach (Shattuck) – “Gone”
Grade 8: Natalie Frank (Shattuck) – “Pain”
Grade 11: Jack Terlap (NHS) – “The Beaten Gravel Path”
Grade 12: Nina Duffeck (NHS) – “what he looks like”
Grade 12: Michael Strey (NHS) – “Laws for Live in Abstract”
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