Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and Princeton’s Howard G.B. Clark ‘21 University Professor in the Humanities Paul Muldoon. (Photo by Michael Potiker.)
The three winners of Princeton University’s 2014 Leonard L. Milberg ‘53 Secondary School Poetry Prize are set to read their winning poems on March 25 at 6 p.m.
The prize is awarded to the winners of an international poetry competition open to eleventh graders. Applicants submit up to three original poems they have written, which are then reviewed by a jury of faculty in the Program in Creative Writing. This year the program received nearly 600 submissions from all fifty states and countries including as Australia, China, Germany, Greece, France, India and New Zealand.
The awards of $500 for first prize, $250 for second and $100 fr third are going to Adina Lasser of Taylors, SC, Tim D. Housand of Greenville, SC and Katie Hibner of Mason, OH. Six additional students received honorable mentions.
They will be joined by Paul Muldoon, Idra Novey, and James Richardson, three members of the Lewis Center for the Arts’ Program in Creative Writing faculty
The reading is free and open to the public.
Labyrinth Books is located at 122 Nassau Street, Princeton.
More information is online at arts.princeton.edu.
