National High school poetry contest


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What we do & Where we've been





WHAT WE DO


We run an annual High School Poetry Contest open to all U S high school students. This year's top prize winner can receive a cumulative award of up to $2500 in college scholarship money & have their poem(s) appear in


AMERICAN HIGH SCHOOL POETS


JUST POETRY!!!


the NATIONAL POETRY QUARTERLY


We also publish topical anthologies at the end of each contest featuring only the very best poetry available from the contest on the topics of faith, love, self, and world.


WHERE WE'VE BEEN


We have been publishing high school poetry anthologies and running scholarship poetry contests since 1998.


This is our 25th annual contest. Those of us who conceived and created this organization did so because we felt, and continue to feel, spiritually led to do so through meaningful experiences we have had with youth, poetry, and education, as well as some excru-ciatingly mindbending experiences we have had with those big-name on-line poetry contests.


We felt that the youth of America deserved a forum which would provide an opportunity for serious young poets to have their work read, respected and published with dignity, and that is what we are all about.


Whether you prefer to read your poetry out loud, or, quietly to yourself, you will find that the poetry we select for our anthologies is second to none.



Our Team, Our Credentials, Our Commitment



OUR TEAM

Our team of volunteers is comprised of poets and educators who devote their time on an "as available " basis because of their shared burden for youth and their desire to be a part of providing a voice for this country's young people.

Our founder and director Mr. Dwight Edward Dieter is a published poet and award-winning song lyricist whose vision and devotion to this organization has led us these many years to a point where we can say "We know that we have touched lives through poetry".

We pride ourselves in selecting only the finest poetry from every contest for our publications. Over and over again, our top winners have proven our basic theory that the best students write the best poetry.

OUR COMMITMENT

It is this commitment to excellence that, for over two decades has solidified our spot as the premier poetry venue among legitimate high school poets. The Easterday Poetry Award is among the most selective in high school poetry circles.

OUR CREDENTIALS

Since 1998 we have given away over $50,000 in scholarship awards and published over 50,000 poets, many for the very first time.

We have offered a money back guarantee on all of our anthologies and, as of this writing, have never had a book returned for a refund. We are very proud of that fact, as it shows to us that people appreciate what we have been doing all these years.

We invite you to Google "Live Poets Society of NJ",
and after over two decades of service to high school students, you will not find a single complaint from anyone whose poetry we have published.


JUST POETRY!!!

&

the Live Poets Society of NJ...


legitimately good poetry

since 1998


no fooling, no kidding,

no scamming.





Live Poets Society of NJ
P. O. Box 8841
Turnersville NJ 08012
info@highschoolpoetrycontest.com
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