
{"id":2130,"date":"2008-03-20T06:54:42","date_gmt":"2008-03-20T14:54:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/2008\/03\/20\/youth-poetry-contest-set-to-spark-creativity\/"},"modified":"2008-03-20T06:54:42","modified_gmt":"2008-03-20T14:54:42","slug":"youth-poetry-contest-set-to-spark-creativity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2008\/03\/20\/youth-poetry-contest-set-to-spark-creativity\/","title":{"rendered":"Youth poetry contest set to spark creativity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/kane_poetry2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/kane_poetry2.jpg\" alt=\"Mariah Norris, a junior at Carrboro High School, reads in her Carrboro home. Norris writes for the CHS student newspaper, The JagWire, and plans to enter the Youth Poetry Contest. Photo by Stephanie Kane.\" align=\"left\" height=\"208\" width=\"161\" \/><\/a><em><strong>By Stephanie Kane<\/strong><br \/>\nCarrboro Commons Writer <\/em><\/p>\n<p>In an initiative to promote art among youth, the Town of Carrboro is conducting its first Carrboro Youth Poetry Contest.<\/p>\n<p>Three winners from the elementary, middle and high school levels will be announced on May 4 in conjunction with festivities for the 13th annual Carrboro Day. The awards ceremony will include public readings of the winning poems and the distribution of various other prizes.<\/p>\n<p>Kim Andrews, a recreation supervisor with the Carrboro Recreation and Parks Department, is currently receiving the poem submissions.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->However, she credits Neal McTighe, Carrboro poet laureate, with proposing the competition.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153It was Neal\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s prerogative as poet laureate to get youth involved in poetry,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Andrews said, adding that the Parks and Recreation Department would support this initiative however they can.<\/p>\n<p>McTighe and the Carrboro Day Committee will be judging the poems.<\/p>\n<p>Though this is the pilot year for the event, both Andrews and McTighe said they anticipate the contest becoming an annual tradition, one that might spark additional youth poetry programs in the future.<\/p>\n<p>Most Carrboro High School English classes incorporate poetry into the crowded curriculum, although educators and students believe more could be done.<\/p>\n<p>Many teachers note Carrboro\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s devotion to the arts as a town and hope to cultivate this through programs within the high school after other issues inherent in a new school are settled.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We have [a lot] to do to support our student voices through poetry,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Jan Gottschalk, an 11th-grade Carrboro High English teacher.<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u009dWe need to provide a venue for those voices, which we currently do not.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I was excited about it as soon as my teacher told our class,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Mariah Norris, a junior at CHS who writes for the school\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s student publication, the JagWire.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Poetry is an important way to express yourself, and I think that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a lot of what Carrboro and Chapel Hill are about,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Norris said. She plans to enter the contest and hopes that other creative young writers will join her.<\/p>\n<p>Andrews hopes to connect with the 18 and under population in Carrboro through other initiatives by the Parks and Recreation Department, under the program \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Poetry Alive.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d These include Open Mic Nights at the Open Eye Caf\u00c3\u00a9 and the annual West End Poets weekend in October.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Once people are exposed to poetry and see that there are so many different forms of it, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll reach some community members who might not have been interested but can really get engaged with this,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Andrews said.<\/p>\n<p>Participants must be 18 or younger, a resident of Carrboro and a poet. The contest will be divided into elementary, middle and high school levels, and each level will have one first-place winner and one honorable mention.<\/p>\n<p>Winners will read their poems at the Carrboro Day ceremony, and first-place poems will be published in The Citizen.<\/p>\n<p>To submit a poem, mail it to Carrboro Youth Poetry Context, Attn: Kim Andrews, 100 North Greensboro St., Carrboro, NC, 27510.<\/p>\n<p>Submissions should include the poet\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s name, address, phone number, email address and date of birth, as well as the name of the poet\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s school and a little about the poet. Submissions must be received by April 4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Stephanie Kane Carrboro Commons Writer In an initiative to promote art among youth, the Town of Carrboro is conducting its first Carrboro Youth Poetry Contest. 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