Students who had won their classroom recitation competitions met after school to compete for the school title on February 6.

Mrs. Andrea Lakly, program coordinator for McIntosh, thanks everyone for their participation in the contest. She said that the judges were busy for quite a while trying to make a very hard decision. Finally they decided on the following:

First — Marguerite Murrell

Second — Imane Mokri

Third — Rebecca Hamilton

Fourth — Emily Miller

The classroom winners and their poem titles are listed below:

Victory Cama “The End of Science Fiction” Lisel Mueller (Bru)

Christian Carr “[What horror to awake at night]” Lorine Niedecker

Genevieve Chan “Do Not!” Stevie Smith (Thib)

Maddie Corley “Time Does Not Bring Relief: You All Have Lied” Edna St. Vincent MIllay (Kearney)

Shelby Doyle “The Lamb” Linda Gregg (Bragg)

Abby Giordano “My Sad Captains” (Thom Gunn)

Rebecca Hamilton “The Death of Allegory” Billy Collins (Kearney)

Monica Jamison “After working sixty hours again for what reason” Bob Hicok (Lakly)

Tyler Lane “The Song of the Smoke” W.E.B. Du Bois (Bru)

Kaylee Lloyd “For the young who want to” Marge Piercy (Kearney)

Samantha McQueston “I felt a Funeral, in my Brain,” (340) Emily Dickinson (Bru)

Emily Miller “The Great Blue Heron” Carolyn Kizer (Lakly)

Imane Mokri “Domestic Situation” Ernest Hilbert (Carman)

Marrguerite Murrell “Time Does Not Bring Relief: You All Have Lied” Edna St. Vincent Millay (Walls)

Caron Polling “God’s Grandeur” Gerard Manley Hopkins (Bru)

Marguerite Stonier “The Chimney Sweeper: When my mother died I was very young ” William Blake (Walls)

Jordan Supena “‘Hope’ is the thing with feathers -” (314) Emily Dickinson (Lakly)

Josh Sussman “Harp Song of the Dane Women” Rudyard Kipling (Buswell)

Alexandre Tchaykov “The Bearer” Hayden Carruth (Kearney)

Connor Whittle “It Couldn’t Be Done” Edgar Albert Guest (Owen)

Stefan Wright “Snowflake” William Baer (Kearney)

Sheila Evans “Domestic Situation” Ernest Hilbert (Delfosse)