1st Grade Honorable Mention Avery Falanga, Super Swimming
1st Grade Honorable Mention John Binelli, Adventure in the Woods
1st Grade Winner Emerico Picardi, Chasing Funny Squirrels
2nd Grade Honorable Mention – Elle McShane, A Butterfly & A Bear
2nd Grade Honorable Mention – Luke DiGiovanni, Diving Deep
2nd Grade Winner – Kristopher Valeras, My Adventure
4th Grade Honorable Mention – Izabella Robinson, Outside
4th Grade Honorable Mention – Keegan Thomas, Climb So High
4th Grade Winner – Alice Ferreira, Adventure
5th Grade Winner – Emily Falk, Just a Dream?
Middle School Honorable Mention – Cole Falk, The Dark Sea
Middle School Honorable Mention – Riley Maibor, A Thousand Nights
Middle School Winner – Emily Hall, A Wild World
High School Honorable Mention – Madeline Kruger, The Adventure of Life
High School Honorable Mention – Kelli Schuler, Vacation of a Lifetime
High School Winner – Katherine Hao, Real Adventures
Adult Honorable Mention – Bonnie Fay, The End of an Era Always Comes Too Soon
Adult Honorable Mention – Harley Monteiro, Slowdance With Me on the Moon
Adult Winner – Ruthie Baker, The Trifecta
Congratulations to all our fantastic poets for their submissions and hard work!
And a very special thank you to our judges:
Terry McDermott, Friends of the Wilmington Memorial Library
Dan Hall, Wilmington Memorial Library Trustees
Danielle Masterson, Wilmington Memorial Library’s Head of Youth Services
A note from Terry McDermott:
“I was honored to be asked to be one of the judges for this year’s Wilmington Memorial Library poetry contest.
The topic of this year’s contest was “Adventure.” Poets of all ages submitted poems that spoke to their experience or impression of adventure – and they were all truly amazing! The grade school compositions radiated the enthusiasm and sincerity of their authors; the poems of the older students and adults were evocative of so many different emotions: thought provoking, humorous, heartbreaking. Reading all these poems was a true privilege and selecting winners a very difficult task. While it is the nature of a contest that there must be “winners,” none of the submitted poems are “losers!” They are all wonderful, and they all excel in their own way. I hope everyone who loves poetry (and maybe even those who don’t!) takes some time to look at this year’s poetry collection. The winning poems are stunning and deserve your serious attention – but the rest of the submissions are quite special, too, and poetry fans won’t be disappointed to see what Wilmington poets are creating!”
