Edgemont Poetry Night A Success

The evening of Friday, April 27 was Edgemont's first Poetry Night. It was very successful -- dozens of students, siblings, parents and staff attended. I felt like I was part of a night of finding yourself through poetry.

I wasn't expecting we would be entertained by a professional jazz singer, Saundra Silliman. It was purely beautiful.

To close the night, our principal, Ms. Hopper, awarded the first, second and third place winners medals for the Wordmasters competition, a challenging national language arts enrichment program Edgemont participates in.

I enjoyed all of the funny poems and the serious ones too. A proud thank you goes out to Ms. O'Connor-Horton for organizing the event and Edgemont's participation in Wordmasters.

I'm already looking forward to next year's event, even though I'll be there as an alum.

Poetry Night Program

Haley Winstead - One Inch Tall (Shel Silverstein)

Ms. O'Connor- The Road Not Taken (Robert Frost)

May Li- Walking Through Woods On A Snowy Evening (Robert Frost)

Ms. Garner- Snow

Sierra Bivins- Spring

 Carrington Brooks - To You (Langston Hughes)

Michael Agard - Harlem (Langston Hughes)

Maria Linietsky -On Turning Ten (Billy Collins)

Kayla Ray- Hearts Promises