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Top teen poets honored at Waldinger
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honorable mention winner Allyce Yang reads her poem.
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Zakiya Jamal took third-place for the second consecutive year.
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Second place winner Robert McKee gets his award from Eng.
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Mamie Eng presents an award to Kristen Wrath, who won first place for the third straight year.
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Library Mamie Eng with poetry contest winners, from left, Kristen Wrath, Robert McKee, Zakiya Jamal and Allyce Yang
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The Henry Waldinger Memorial Library held an awards ceremony for its young adult poetry contest on May 7. Library Director Mamie Eng presented each winner with a certificate. The annual contest was held as part of the celebration of National Poetry Month.
South High School senior Kristen Wraith won for the third straight year. Robert McKee, a seventh-grader at Memorial Junior High School, took second place. Zakiya Jamal was a repeat winner, as her poem placed third for the second year in a row. She is a junior at North High School.
Honorable mention went to Allyce Yang, a sixth-grader at Forest Road School. All four winners read their poems at the awards presentation.
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