Enter your students in our Student Poetry Contest

Download Printable Entry Forms
and the Contest Rules.
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Completed entry form must accompany submissions sent by mail.
You may alternately enter online here.

Please be sure to read the contest rules
prior to mailing in your submission.

Mail entries to:
Review Committee
c/o The America Library of Poetry
P.O. Box 978
Houlton, ME 04730

Information on Deadline Extensions

Contest Winners

Winners are announced every September 30th. 
On this date, the names of the winners and their respective poems
will be added to this website.
Winners are notified directly by mail. 
The winners' submitting teachers and school principals
will be notified via the schools' addresses.

Read the List of Winners

Educator's Certificate of Recognition

If you have entered your students in our Student Poetry Contest,
you can print a certificate of recognition.

Click Here

Certificates of Participation

If your students have entered our Student Poetry Contest,
you can print a certificate of participation for each entrant.