2024/2025
Great Adirondack Young People’s Poetry Showcase
Each year, hundreds of poems are received from students in Grades 1-12 in public, private, and home schools within and around the Adirondack Park.
SUBMISSIONS (DEADLINE EXTENDED!)
Submissions will now be accepted through Saturday, March 8, 2025. Please make sure to include the poet's name and grade, teacher’s name and email address, school, school address and school phone number with each poem submitted.
Two entries by each student may be sent to Tara Palen, LPCA Director of Education and Outreach, by email at tara@lakeplacidarts.org or by mail: Lake Placid Center for the Arts, 17 Algonquin Drive, Lake Placid, NY 12946.
Words from the Woods
Poetry Booklet 2024
“We read, recite, learn and write poems in order to fix in our memory precious truths and lasting feelings. Poetry existed long before the alphabet, and served ancient cultures as a way of remembering the stories that defined them. In our world of print and electronic media, poetry retains its ancient power.”
The Great Adirondack Young People's Poetry Showcase recognizes that poetry is not only a fundamental literary art, but also an accessible form of writing for students of all ages. Each year, hundreds of poems are received from students in Grades 1-12 in public, private, and home schools within and around the Adirondack Park.
This program was initiated in 1998 by the Lake Placid Institute for the Arts & Humanities and remains one of the most successful and treasured programs of LPI.
Poems are judged by local poets and those selected for their special merit will be published in the booklet, Words from the Woods. Poets selected will have the opportunity to recite their work at a Spring 2025 awards ceremony at LPCA (date to be announced).
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