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The Bucks County Poets Laureate hopes to turn the handbook into a larger project through online PDFs and audio versions of the prompts online. (Shutterstock)
BUCKS COUNTY, PA Four former Bucks County laureates have teamed up to publish a poetry handbook for local teachers to use in the classroom.
Mary Jo LoBello Jerome, Katherine Hahn Falk, Luray Gross, and Laren McClung, along with Bucks County Community College Professor Ethel Rackin, have published Fire Up the Poems: Poetry Prompts for Teachers by Bucks County Poets Laureate.
Funded by the Bucks County Community College Foundation, the handbook provides poetry lessons to local arts educators in the county at no cost. The prompts look to increase students critical thinking skills and greater understanding of writing.
Poetry Contest For Bucks County High School Students
If you re a Bucks County High School student, you could win $300 in the annual Bucks County High School Poet of the Year contest, according to Levittown Now.
The Bucks County Community College Poet Laureate Program has been running this contest for 34 years. It s open to all grade levels, freshmen, sophomores, juniors, and seniors who live in Bucks County and are home schooled or go to a Bucks County high school. If you ve won before, you re no longer eligible. You have some time, but, if you re planning on entering, I d start thinking about this now. You have until 4pm on Friday, March 19th to enter three poems (they must be original pieces). You can submit your entries and fill out the entry form here.