Sarah Mook Poetry Contest

 Sarah Mook Poetry Contest for Students (Grades K-12)

We are so grateful for your support: teachers, parents, and especially all of the young writers. 

Sarah was a student in the third grade at Buckingham Friends School in Lahaska, Pennsylvania, when she died suddenly of an aortic aneurysm on December 14, 1995. Sarah started writing poems in kindergarten, and it is the goal of this outreach that Sarah’s gift continue to inspire young poets. The purpose of the Sarah Mook Memorial Poetry Contest is to encourage and acknowledge the efforts of student poets in grades K-12. A fund has been established by Sarah's family specifically to fund the contest. Cash awards are given in four categories: K-2, 3-5, 6-8, and 9-12. Optional donations (there is no entry fee) are given in Sarah’s name each year to a designated charity. Awards and charitable giving are important, but the focus of our effort is always the young poets and their poems. We hope you will enter your poems.

I Play a game with my Dad 

by Sarah Mook (1st Grade)

We have a piece of paper

with words on it.

Then we copy one word off it,

then another,

all silly

like bees with fish wings

or this ivy stick

with books hanging off it

instead of leaves.

When we play this game

I am as happy as a dolphin

singing a song.

The purpose of the Sarah Mook Memorial Poetry Contest is to encourage and acknowledge the efforts of student poets in grades K-12.