| This fifth edition of A Pride of Poets covers the years 1981, 1982,1983 of the New York City High School Poetry Contest. It containsthe poems of the prize winners and finalists for these three yearsand the names and schools of all the contestants. The contestitself, begun in 1971 and modeled after an earlier contest, requiresthat each high school submit the work of only one student poet.The list of students is, therefore, a list of poets considered best ineach school. We believe they deserve this permanent recognition.Our goals to encourage and to recognize the poetry in our schoolshas met with approval and support from the poetry community.Each year poets of recognized stature judge the entries. Each yearan eminent poet speaks at the Awards Ceremony, held atWashington Irving High School the first Tuesday in May. We arefortunate also to have the generous contribution of a sister art, thetheatre, in the persons of the distinguished actors, Marian Seldesand Earle Hyman, who read the winning poems at the AwardsCeremony.For the year 1981 our judges were Carol Muske, Philip Appleman,Michael Harper; for 1982, Alexis De Veaux, Barbara Guest, DanielHoffman; for 1983, Lucille Clifton, Daniel Halpern, Philip Schultz.Our alumni prize judge has been for 1981, Charles Simic; for 1982,Arthur Gregor; for 1983, Josephine Miles. Our speakers have beenPhilip Levine, C. K. Williams, Galway Kinnell. To them as well asto our other donors we are most grateful.Our other donors include the professional poetry societies, thePoetry Society of America, the Academy of American Poets, theNew York Poetry Forum; the New York City Association of Assis-tant Principals, Supervision English, the New York City Assoc~tionof Teachers of English, Houghton Mifflin Company and a numberof private citizens, among them Carroll Donner, Mr. and Mrs. Ar-thur Yaspan, Howard Plummer. In addition, the contest is pleasedto have the Teachers College Milton A. Kaplan Fund and since1982, the Robert J. Christen Prize in memory of Dr. Christen,member and former president of the Board of Education, to whomour last edition of A Pride of Poets was dedicated. |
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