Sierra Canyon’s 5th Annual Ars Poetica

4/20/2018

On Wednesday, April 18^th, the entire Upper Campus gathered to watch 9 Middle School students compete in the 5^th Annual Ars Poetica Competition.

Each student chose a poem to study and recite in front the student body and five judges: Mr. Jim Skrumbis, Mr. Noah Salamon, Mr. Eric Schrode, Dr. Danielle Domzalski, and Mr. Mikael Romano. Our 7^th-12^th grade students were able to cast their vote of their favorite performer online for the People’s Choice Awards.

Student Poetry Performers:

First Place

Miss Mya Petryshyn

“Alone wth Everybody” by Charles Bukowski (1920-1994)

Second Place

Miss Kai Smith

“Love in the City” by Jose Marti (1852-1895)

Third Place Tie

Mr. Eugene Reicher

“Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock” by T.S. Eliot (1888-1965)

Third Place Tie and People’s Choice First Place

Mr. Jacob Wisott

“Casey at the Bat: A Ballad of the Republic Sung in the Year 1888” by Erest Thayer (1863-1940)

People’s Choice Second Place

Mr. Bruno Kushnir

“A Supermarket in California” by Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997)

People’s Choice Third Place

Mr. Otto Rahmel

“I am Waiting” by Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919-

Participants

Mr. Griffin Kunitz

“Maggie and Millie and Molly and May” by e. e. Cummings (1894-1962)

Miss Lindsay Sobel

“My Last Duchess” by Robert Browning (1812-1889)

Mr. Aaron Kunitz

“The Laughing Heart” by Charles Bukowski (1920-1994)

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Sierra Canyon School is a private, independent, non-sectarian, co-educational, college preparatory school for students in grades Pre-Kindergarten through 12 located in Chatsworth, California. The highly cosmopolitan campus community is reflective of the Greater Los Angeles area and the world at large. Students are empowered to realize their greatest creative, ethical, intellectual and physical promise through small class sizes, a diverse student-teacher culture and a family-like environment.