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SARAH MOOK POETRY PRIZE
2010 RESULTS
Thank
you for entering your poem(s) in the Sarah Mook Poetry Contest.
We were happy to receive so many wonderful poems, and it
was my pleasure to read each of the poems before passing
them through to the final judge. It is nice to see so many
students writing poems! The teachers and parents also deserve
praise for providing encouragement to all of the young writers.
Marie
Kane, Bucks County Poet Laureate 2006 and former high school
English and Creative Writing teacher, was this year's final
judge. She generously provided commentary and detailed explications
of each of the winning poems, and lots of much-deserved
praise for the winning poets as well.
I
personally want to thank Mrs. Kane for her careful consideration
of each of the finalist poems. It is no easy task to choose
winners when all of your efforts are so worthy. Each First
Place winner will receive cash prizes of $100, Second Place
$50, and Third Place $25.
Congratulations
to the winners and to all of the young writers who entered
your poems this year.
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GRADES
K-2
1st
Place:
"Rocks"
Thomas Park Johnson
Sarasota, FL
2nd
Place:
"Trees"
Sawyer Dunn-Matrullo
Sarasota, FL
3rd
Place:
"Christmas is Near"
Katrina Miciek
Ardmore, PA
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GRADES
3-5
1st
Place:
"Ocean-song"
Ellen Whiteside
Princeton, NJ
2nd
Place:
"The Pearl"
Tobi Yoon
Doylestown, PA
3rd
Place:
"Heaven's Backyard"
Adam Manaster
Champaign, IL
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GRADES
6-8
1st
Place:
"The Mirror"
Jeremy Brassard
Strafford, NH
2nd
Place:
"Clay Pot"
Jennifer Jacobs
Short Hills, NJ
3rd
Place:
"The Bridge"
Chad Leasure
Portland, ME
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GRADES
9-12
1st
Place:
"Secrets of
the House"
Alexandra Hailey
Manassas, VA
2nd
Place:
"A Spring Rain"
Leah Garrity
Rutledge, PA
3rd
Place:
"intheendiamalone"
Bailey Higgins
Jenkintown, PA
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Thanks
to the generosity of those who sent donations a contribution
was made in Sarah's name to the St. Joseph's Indian School
in Chamberlain, South Dakota.
Thank
you for helping to honor Sarah and her gift of poetry. We
wish you continued success in your writing and in all you
do. Please enter again next year.
Sincerely,
David Mook and Family
davidmook@aol.com
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$10
Soft Cover,
$20 Hard Cover
Includes shipping and handling.
Quantity discounts available for educational use.
Email: davidmook@aol.com
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EACH
LEAF
Poems by Sarah Mook and David Mook
Sarah
Gail Mook was a student in the third grade at Buckingham
Friends School in Lahaska, PA when she died suddenly
on December 14, 1995. Sarah began writing poems in
kindergarten. Reading Sarah's poems over and over
during the months following her death inspired her
father, David, to begin writing poetry. For David,
"poetry is a gift from Sarah, a blessing."
EACH LEAF is a celebration of Sarah's life, her gifts,
and also embodies a journey through grief into healing
and spiritual growth.
"A
beautiful book that left me both grieving and rejoicing
- a wonderful tribute to Sarah, and to poetry and
to life." Christopher Bursk
"Heartfelt,
heartbreaking and extraordinarily life-affirming in
its ability to confront life/death, love/loss, belief.
It tackles, in a remarkable way, the question: how
does one go on living in the face of such grief and
sorrow?" Cheryl Baldi
EACH
LEAF also contains an essay about father and daughter
fishing on the Delaware River. "Fishing"
was selected as a notable essay in the Best American
Essays -2000.
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Send orders to:
Sarah Mook Outreach Fund
P.O. Box 20
Lahaska, PA 18931
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I
PLAY A GAME WITH MY DAD
by Sarah Mook (1st Grade)
We have a piece of paper
with words on it.
Then we copy one word
off it, then another,
all silly
like bees with fish wings
or this ivy stick
with books hanging off it
instead of leaves.
When we play this game
I am as happy as a dolphin
singing a song.
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