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Student Poets Represent Woodberry Forest Well

Four Woodberry Forest students were among six winners of the first-ever Columbia Granger's World of Poetry high school poetry contest, held to celebrate April 2017 Poetry Month by the Columbia University Press. The contest challenged young poets to use a poem cataloged in the online database service, which makes over 150,000 poems available, to inspire an original work.
 
Maxwell Johns ’18 and Ryan Kauffman ’20 each won $100 in books from Columbia University Press for themselves and for Woodberry's William H. White Library. They, along with honorable mention winners Cordelia Hogan ’17 and Clay Tydings ’17, had their poems published on the Columbia Granger's World of Poetry website.


"I am proud of all of our students who submitted pieces and thrilled for those who have been recognized for their work," says Phoebe Warmack, director of the William H. White Library. "It is a testament to our students and their teachers that Woodberry Forest is so well represented among the six finalist spots."
Woodberry Forest admits students of any race, color, sexual orientation, disability, religious belief, and national or ethnic origin to all of the rights, privileges, programs, and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the school. It does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, sexual orientation, disability, religious belief, or national or ethnic origin in the administration of its educational policies, admissions policies, scholarship and loan programs, and athletic or other school-administered programs. The school is authorized under federal law to enroll nonimmigrant students.