Sewanhaka students win poetry honor
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Juniors Selena Thomas, Hamza Akram, Sydney St. Hilaire, Amanda Mangru, Anji Persaud and Matthias Weilmann are pictured with a statue of Walt Whitman.
Courtesy of Sewanhaka Central H.S. District
Sewanhaka High School juniors in Alison Leighton’s English classes won first place in the class anthology division of the 29th annual poetry contest sponsored by the Walt Whitman Birthplace State Historic Site and Interpretive Center.
The theme of the contest was “Voice of the Elements,” and students were asked to become the poetic voice of earth, wind, water or fire, inspired by the Whitman poem “The Voice of Rain.” Leighton’s students competed against more than 3,000 students and were honored at an awards ceremony on May 31 at the Walt Whitman Birthplace site, on what would have been the author’s 196th birthday.
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