

	Sylvia Plath at Smith		Award: $500 Judge for 2012: Aracelis Girmay The winner & three finalists will read their poems at the Judge's reading at Smith College on April 9th 2013. The results of the 2013 High School Poetry Prize are in! Congratulations to our prize-winners!
	Entry Form CLICK HERE ~ Submissions are now closed ~ Open again Sept. 1, 2013		The Poetry Center at Smith College was founded in 1998 with the goals of bringing distinguished poets to the College, creating a video archive of their readings, promoting an appreciation of poetry in the larger community through outreach to schools. The Poetry Center celebrates Smith’s long and illustrious relationship with such world-renowned poets as Sylvia Plath, W.H. Auden, Richard Wilbur, and Adrienne Rich.

			About the Judge Aracelis Girmay is the author of the picture book changing, changing and the poetry collections Teeth and Kingdom Animalia, for which she was awarded the Isabella Gardner Award, given biennially to a poet in midcareer with a new book of exceptional merit. Girmay weaves her multicultural heritage—Eritrean, Puerto Rican and African American—into a distinct voice that Martín Espada has called “brave, lyrical, fiery, joyful.” A Cave Canem fellow, Girmay taught youth writing workshops in schools and community centers for many years; currently, she is on the faculty at Hampshire College and the low-residency MFA program at Drew University. Past judges: Eavan Boland * Naomi Shihab Nye * Sharon Olds
			View the 2012 winners View the 2011 winners View the 2010 winners View the 2009 winners View the 2008 winners View the 2007 winners From Sylvia Plath's journal, Smith College, April 27, 1953