Education/Youth

"Nature and Me" 2007-2008 Poetry Contest


Jeannie Bradley of Hiawassee, Ga., is our 2000 Youth Poetry Contest winner, Kindergarten Division. Jeannie also won First Place in the Deep South Region!
The time has arrived to explore the different types of poetry that our youth can use to express their creative ideas. This year's title for the poetry contest is "Nature and Me." Use your imagination and join the winners to see your poetry in print!

Visit this page to read winning poems from past contests.

Eligibility

  • Kindergarten through Ninth Grade
  • Special Education: Kindergarten through Ninth Grade

Contest Rules

  1. All entries must be typed and titled.
  2. Include name, address, and age and school grade of participant on back of entry.
  3. Sponsoring club must also be identified.
  4. All entries become the property of NGC.
  5. Poems do not have to rhyme.
  6. Poems may be traditional verse, acrostics, blank verse, cinquains, diamond poems or haiku.

Scale of Points (total 100)

  1. Title (10)
  2. Content (40)
  3. Creativity (30)
  4. Style (20)

Entry Guidelines

Submit entries to District Poetry Contest Chairman by November 1, 2007. See the Guide for your District Chairman's address. The District will send the 1st and 2nd Place winning entries to State Poetry Contest Chairman before December 1, 2007. Contact the State Chairman for more information:

Gina Moses
GCG State Poetry Contest Chairman
2478 Claxton Dairy Road
Dublin, GA 31021

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Worms
Worms live underground in the dirt,
in my garden.
They break apart,
I feed them to the chickens.
I put some back underground,
in my garden.
—Mathias Koeppel, Barnesville, Ga.