A picture taken just before the April 26th OIWF poetry night reading. Here is the first-prize winner of the Bywords/Think Ink Secondary School poetry contest: Christine Klippenstein, Grade 12, Canterbury High School. She wrote a poem about cooling tea, inspired by Stephanie Bolster’s Two Bowls of Milk. It shows promise beyond her years according to judge Marcus McCann. The graceful piece was at home on the stage of published poets and had a lovely turn at the end that pushed the depth further. Nice piece.
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I’ve been to a few HS events…some amazing
poems Put up a flag if her poem get visible.
Yes, age is no barrier to skill. someone who chooses to access and practice by age 8 can have as much know-how as someone with 50 years life experience and just starts in this poetry thing.
sure thing. I’ll point to it when I know where it is.
It’ll come out in print in the Bywords Quarterly Journal launching on May 16th.