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2013
SARAH MOOK
POETRY PRIZE RESULTS
The
poems submitted to the Sarah Mook contest in 2013 were heart-warming,
startling, original, and extremely effective. All of the
entrants, finalists, and winners are to be commended. This
is my fifth year of judging the finals, and deciding the
top three for each age group (out of ten finalists for each)
is always challenging. The talented winners of 2013 differ
in style, voice, poetic devices used, and topics; yet all
of them craft poetry of depth. This poetry is exciting in
that it involves far-ranging topics that the poets make
universal. These poems "find the words for thought"
as Robert Frost said poetry should, or as Rita Dove believes,
the poems "make[s] us stop for a moment - and listen."
Thank you, gifted writers, for your entries.
Marie
Kane
Final Judge - Sarah Mook Poetry Contest, 2013
engmrk@aol.com
click
on the names to read the poems
(below each poem includes comments from Judge Marie
Kane):
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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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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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