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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):

GRADES K-2

First Place:
Elliot Prantis
"The Crow"
East Sandwich, MA

Second Place:
Awab El Ghissassi
"Pollution"
Vestal, NY

Third Place:
Jacob Pinkney
"Alone at Night"
Sarasota, FL
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GRADES 3-5

First Place:
Gioia Marchiano
"Far Out"
Philadelphia, PA

Second Place:
Henry Prantis
"A Crow, a Heron, and a Seagull"
East Sandwich, MA

Third Place:
Eleanor Wikstrom
"The Many Faces of teh Ocean"
Oakland, CA
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GRADES 6-8

First Place:
Noelle Timberlake
"Words, Words, Words"
Edgecomb, ME

Second Place:
Teddy Mantel
"If"
Edgecomb, ME

Third Place:
Claire Dauge-Roth
"Ode to Circus"
Edgecomb, ME

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GRADES 9-12

First Place:
Mindy Gorin
"What Remains"
Allendale, NJ

Second Place:
Catherine Valdez
"Station Manager "
Miami, FL

Third Place:
Maylin Enamorado
"Barrage"
Miami, FL
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Each Leaf Poems by Sarah Mook and David Mook

$10 Soft Cover,
$20 Hard Cover
Includes shipping and handling.

Quantity discounts available for educational use. Email: davidmook@aol.com

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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Sarah Mook

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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