3 USN Students Reach Finals of Poetry Contest
Three of the six finalists in The Literary Award Student Poetry Contest 2010 are USN students.
Billy Collins-- former Poet Laureate of the United States--will be in Nashville this weekend (November 13) to accept the Nashville Public Library Literary Award. He's also had the opportunity to read poems from many Nashville--and USN--teens as part of The Literary Award Student Poetry Contest 2010.
Of the six finalists--three in each of two divisions (13-15 and 16-18)--half of them are USN students. Junior Maddie Cron, for her poem "The Fountain of Youth," and senior Mattis Deutch, for his poem "Platonic," are both finalists in the high school competition. An eighth grader, Carson Thomas, is also a finalist. Their poems were selected from among more than 200 entries.
These students will have the opportunity to meet Billy Collins on Saturday. The winners will be announced then, prior to the public reading and event, which takes place at 10:00 Saturday morning at Hume-Fogg.
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Of the six finalists--three in each of two divisions (13-15 and 16-18)--half of them are USN students. Junior Maddie Cron, for her poem "The Fountain of Youth," and senior Mattis Deutch, for his poem "Platonic," are both finalists in the high school competition. An eighth grader, Carson Thomas, is also a finalist. Their poems were selected from among more than 200 entries.
These students will have the opportunity to meet Billy Collins on Saturday. The winners will be announced then, prior to the public reading and event, which takes place at 10:00 Saturday morning at Hume-Fogg.
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University School of Nashville models the best educational practices. In an environment that represents the cultural and ethnic composition of Metropolitan Nashville, USN fosters each student’s intellectual, artistic, and athletic potential, valuing and inspiring integrity, creative expression, a love of learning, and the pursuit of excellence.