Budding Poets’ Work Appears in Anthology of Poetry by Young Americans

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Second-grade teachers, from left, Erin Piepkow, Tippi Sadler, Leigh Stewart, and Donna Qualls,
take a well-deserved break in the Lower School library after learning that poems by 24 of their
students had been published.

Halloween, puppies, clouds, colors, and football were among the topics last year’s second-graders chose to write about in their original poems.

Rhymes like “mouse/house” and “light/bright” made predictable appearances, but originality shone through too. In her poem about clouds, Ella Spinks concluded with the lines “When it is night say, ‘bye-bye’/Because a cloud’s job is done,” while Anne Stuart Cox concludes her poem, entitled “Fall,” with “The sun is shining,/we are not whining.”

Of the poems submitted by CCES second-grade teachers to Anthology of Poetry, Inc., a 20-year-old publisher based in Asheboro, North Carolina, a total of 24 appear in the hardcover 2009 anthology. Now third-graders, these young poets can proudly display it on their bookshelves. Who knows, but these may the first of many published works by these students!

Congratulations to these young authors: Kylie Benak, Santiago Cervantes, Anil Chandler, Anne Stuart Cox, Patton Fowler, Jack Gallivan, Erica Harris, William Heidtman, Will James, Claire Kester, Linus Koester, Sydney Lee, Kailee Morgan, Elliott Marron, Ross Oakley, Gracie Patat, Robert Powell, Lena Regent, Alexandra Robinson, Hailey Sanders, Max Shetterly, Ella Spinks, Nicholas Tower, and Joe Yarbrough.