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Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts juniors are Fresh Voices Poetry Competition Winners
Alexander Nordlun and Rachel Justice, 2018 Fresh Voices Poetry Competition winners
(Hartford, Conn.) Two junior creative writing students from CREC Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts are among the six winners of this year’s Fresh Voices Poetry Competition, which was held at the Hill-Stead Museum in Farmington in April. Alexander Nordlun is a half-day student from Glastonbury and Rachel Justice is a half-day student from Enfield. The students wrote poems suitable for presentation and publication and competed against other high school students from throughout New England. The competition has nurtured young poets since 1993.
Nordlun, Justice, along with the other winners, will read their poems at the museum’s Sunken Garden Poetry Festival’s Young Poet’s Day on Sunday, August 5. Their winning works will also be featured in Hill-Stead’s online poetry journal, Theodate, and printed in a chapbook published by Antrim House Press and available for purchase in the Hill-Stead Museum Shop.
The other high school student winners are:
Vanecia Fultz – Rockville High School, Vernon
Youssef Mezrioui – Rockville High School, Vernon
Sarah Lewis – Hall High School, West Hartford
Ellis McGinley – Arts at the Capitol Theater Performing Arts Magnet High School, Willimantic
Their judges were Daniel Donaghy, an English professor at Eastern Connecticut State University, and Adriane Jefferson, arts program manager and special programs coordinator for the Department of Economic and Community Development, Connecticut Office of the Arts.
Visit www.hillstead.org/sunken-garden-poetry-festival/poetry-programs-students-educators/fresh-voices-poetry-competition/ for more information.
