Adult Category

Winner:  Vincent Spada 

Planting Seeds of Poetry

Finalist: Alexandra Mezzina

The Love in Patient Tending

Finalist: Tereska James

A Yearning for Today

Finalist: Christine O’Connor

A Honey Stained Spoon

Finalist & Evocative Imagery: Gayle Heney

SEARCHING

Growing Our Community Award: Maureen Crawford Hentz

The Common is a Garden

High School

Winner:  Cawan Souza Do Carmo    

Grade 12 North Andover High School

The Words That Took Root

Finalist: Laween Ismaail

Grade 11 North Andover High School

Have a Seat

Have a Seat (Interview Version)

Finalist: Evan Bagci

Grade 11 North Andover High School

Jenny’s Guitar

Growing Our Community Award: Isabella Raposo

Grade 10 North Andover

Blossom

Middle School

Winner: Tarun Nair

Grade 8 North Andover Middle School

Garden Of Acumen

Finalist: Eden Dunleavy

Grade 8 The Pike School

The Chameleon

The Walk to Forever

Finalist: Annabel Manzo

Grade 7 The Pike School

The Seeds We Speak

Finalist: Ineshi Jayasekara

Grade 8 North Andover Middle School

A Poem’s Not Done Until It’s Read

Grades 3-5

Winner: Nivin Nair

Grade 3 Sargent

Reflection

Finalist & Metaphorical Imagination: Valentina Lush

Grade 4 Atkinson

That Curb

Finalist & Evocative Imagery: Erik Magnuson

Grade 3B Franklin

Animals Are Weird

Grades 3-5

Finalist: Hugo Kolling

Grade 4 Franklin

My Community

Finalist: Ben Korik

Grade 5 Sargent

Six Poems About Our Town

Finalist: Charles Bohenek

Grade 5 Sargent

This Town Was Built on Dreams

Grades K-2

Winner: Brennan Jenkins

Kindergarten, Anne Bradstreet Early Childhood Center

Old Shady