The 31st Intergenerational Poetry Contest
September 2020
West Roxbury Branch Public Library
Theme: Space
Final Judge’s Results
Grade 2
1st Place: Amaya Millner-Barrios, Untitled (first line: “High above the clouds, into the black sky, out of the”)
Grade 3
1st Place: Eden Ruth Wilson, “Never”
Grade 4
1st Place: Roisin Ni Cheallaigh Cook, “Mr. Moon”
Grade 5
1st Place: Annabel Kristine Halloran, “Claustrophobic”
Grade 6
TIE for 1st Place:
Gavin Wainwright, “Space”
Grace Morash, “Sally Ride”
- Honorable Mention: Lily Courtney, “Astrophobia”
- Honorable Mention: Ella Mahoney, “Space”
High School
TIE for 1st Place:
Morgan Frost, “covid-19”
Hari Narayanan, “The Liminal Space”
- Honorable Mention: Emma Clark, “An Unfilled Space in My Heart”
- Honorable Mention: Maia Frost, “Negative Space”
Adults
1st Place: Nina Kallen, “Confessions in the Time of Coronavirus”
- Honorable Mention: Christopher Donahue, “Felix”
- Honorable Mention: Adam Finelli, “Man/Turkey”
Seniors
1st Place: Alice P. Sullivan, “A Space Inviolate”
- Honorable Mention: Carol A. Amato, “An Ordinary Girl”
- Honorable Mention: Rick Hardy, Untitled (first line: “Between eyes”)
- Honorable Mention: Mary E. Kavanaugh, “Freedom’s a Song”
- Honorable Mention: Phyllis Iva Meserlian, “Adventure into Space”
- Honorable Mention: Gary Strichartz, “Spacing Out”
Final Judge: Mary Pinard