Published April 23. 2023 10:58PM
To commemorate “National Poetry Month” in April, the Lehigh Valley Press presents the 18th annual Student Poetry Project.
Students in the High School, Middle School and Elementary School categories whose poems are published on the front page of the April 26 and 27 Focus section in Lehigh Valley Press (East Penn Press, Salisbury Press, Parkland Press, Northwestern Press, Whitehall-Coplay Press, Catasauqua Press, Northampton Press, Bethlehem Press) read their poems and are interviewed on the April 24 broadcast of “Lehigh Valley Arts Salon” on WDIY, 88.1, wdiy.org, Lehigh Valley Public Radio and NPR affiliate.
The Student Poetry Project adjudication committee met March 28 to read more than 150 poems submitted by students from schools in the Lehigh Valley region.
The Lehigh Valley Press Student Poetry Project received a 2018 Professional Keystone Press Award and a 2010 Pennsylvania Newspaper Association Foundation Award.
The Lehigh Valley Press thanks the students who entered their poems and the school teachers, parents and guardians who encouraged them.
PRESS PHOTO BY PAUL WILLISTEIN 18th annual Student Poetry Project committee ajudicators, from left: Committee Chairperson George VanDoren, retired English teacher, Liberty High School, Bethlehem Area School District, and National Writing Project Fellow; Shirley M. Daluisio, retired English teacher, Liberty High School, and Ann E. Michael, Assistant Director, DeSales University Writing Center, and a published poet.
