Announcing Our Poet Winners!

Here is our list of poet winners for 2026! Congratulations and thank you to everyone who participated! Our poetry contest was highly selective this year due to the record number of submissions, including many from other states and countries. Also, poetry is subjective so do not feel discouraged if you did not win an award this year. Please fill out this survey for award claiming and award-winning poetry publication choices. 

Instead of having an award ceremony this year, we will invite award winners to submit videos of themselves reciting their poetry. These videos will be featured on our new YouTube channel. More details soon!

We encourage all of you to keep writing and composing poetry. We hope to see you in next year's contest! 

PreK-6th Grade

FIRST PLACE

Kaira Chang

Keys School

“A Flower Story”

SECOND PLACE

Ciao Non

Jeremiah School

“Growing Up Too Young”

THIRD PLACE

Clare Laechelin

Great Hearts Northern Oaks

“Dragon Dance”

HONORABLE MENTIONS

Xavier O’Hara

 Duveneck Elementary School

“Amber Eyes Remember”

Kyle Wang

Harker Middle School

​​”Ode to Grilled Cheese Sandwiches”

Gia Sumanth

Greene Middle School

“Humanity”

7th-12th Grade

FIRST PLACE

Danielle Huh

Glen Ridge High School

“the font of this poem is ordinary”

SECOND PLACE

Ceira Motoyama

Lynbrook High School

“Mother tongue”

THIRD PLACE

Emma Tiet

Oak Avenue Intermediate

“A Piece Of Tape”

HONORABLE MENTIONS

Clara Jung

Jane L. Stanford Middle School

“my perfect barbie is fat”

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Cici Xiyue Zhang

Gunn High School

“ANTHROPOCENE”

Yunhan Luo

Jane L. Stanford Middle School

“Hypothetical”

Elias Ben Himane

Jane L. Stanford Middle School

“A Rainbow of Emotions”

Adults

FIRST PLACE

Seonyoung Park

“The Little Special One”

SECOND PLACE

Ji-Yeon Hong

“My Beast”

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THIRD PLACE

Aryan Bhargava

“In Between Bells”