Click here to read the five student-nominated, editor-selected poems from
the Class of 2012 -- featured with a poem by former U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins!

Anonymous A. / Epiphany Eliza A. / The Beach Hanna A. / Extinguished Hopes Morgan A. / Financial Collapse Nick A. / Poetry Keaghan Adley / You Want Seconds Ali Afridi / Cricket the Best Sport of All Rachael Amos / ONE WAY STREET David An / Requiem for the Forgotten Chris Appelman / I Cheated On Pikachu Stephanie Atwood / Hidden Turmoil Elizabeth B. / An Afternoon Drive Josh B. / My Snack-Time Madness Leah B. / Hardiness, Purity, and Vigilance Nathan B. / Arlington Reservoir Dam Patrick B. / Life as a Teenager Rebecca B. / Fire Sarah B. / King Of All Days Jonah Bader / The Ubiquitous Storm Timothy Bagby / The Winter Pond Trijit Banerjee / A Screaming Match (As my Birthday Present) Michele Barnes / Remember Me Michelle Batho / Refrigerator Haiku Andrew Beaulieu / Could I? Ronald Beaulieu / Speaking Mirrors Ryan Beers / Friday Afternoon Carina Belvin / The Mighty Hunter Rami Benayad-Cherif / Life to Flight Anna Berman / I’m Tired Sophia Bernitz / Monster of the Morning Oscar Bian / The Summit Kaleigh Bisconti / The Mountain Jordan Blackington / Central Park Ross Bloomfield / A Reverse Accident Abigail Bokun / Tomorrow Never Comes Hyun Yung Boo / Five Red Flowers Alison Boreiko / Lily Shannon Boudett / Lady Leith Boutiba / Midnight Ingenuity Victoria Brackett / Love is like Air Isabella Brandao / Flashing Lights Jon Bristow / Battleship Hannah Brown / I am From... Ryan Brugger / Broken Ulna Allison Bukys / why words? Kate Burke / Woes of a Wise Fool Patrick Burns / Chocolate Chip Cookies! Drew C. / No Ordinary Sight... Elaine C. / All My Fault Emma C. / The Beach Hweedo C. / Heartbeat James C. / My Ode To Dad Sam C. / Staple Remover Sean C. / Tell Me Sydney C. / The Great Wall Taylor Campbell / Nothing At All Marissa Chaffee / My Place Carolyn Chang / The Beauty of Rain Jaeho Chang / True Beauty Yongjin Andrew Chang / Underneath the Evergreens Emily Charlton / A Harmless Spring Day Brittany Chen / A Beautiful Spring Day Maya Cherayil / I Don't Think So. Otari Chipashvili / Fresh Start Benjamin Chomitz / My Old House Nancy Chomitz / Automatic Writing Samantha Chung / Sound of Loneliness Bennett Clifford / School Day Nathan Coburn / Back on the List Z. Cohen / Mail Collection Charlotte Cohn / Footsteps Noah Coolidge / Still Improving Laura Copeland-Clarke / The Apology Gabi Cortez / Home Dan Coste / Success Catherine Costello / The Adrenaline Rush Meghan Crocker / A Life in Flames Jake Curran / The Cottage Bria D. / The Mall Brian D. / The Goal Danielle D. / Childhood Nightmare Marissa D. / Blue Eyes Taher Dahleh / untitled Erin Darabant / Meeting Grandpa Danica Davis / Strokes of a Water Bug Betsy Day / Grandparents' House Katy DelGreco / Never Let Down Lilit Derkevorkian / Obsession with Technology Nicole Desimone / Thank You Caroline Desmond / Cape Cod Melanie Deutsch / Rapid Fire Smile Spero Dimas / Bulletproof? Sage Dumont / Summer Longing Ben E. / When the West Wind Blows... Tzeidel E. / The Pond Rebekah Estrada / Hometown Nick Ettlinger / Untimely Brian Evans / Hotel Buffet Fiona Evans / All Varieties of Music Jeremy F. / The Never Dream Julia F. / You’re Dead. I’m sorry? Matt F. / Ebb and Flow Shane F. / My Dream Taylor Fabricant / One Week Leyla Farhat / California Emma Feinberg / Sundays Past Sara Feldman / Sample Space Julia Fernandes / Autumn Caroline Fitzgerald / Beneath the Sea Emily Foley / Invincible Allison Forlenza / Fireworks Catherine Forman / My Dear, City Adam Forstall / 72 Black and White Keys Michelle Foss / Drifting Away to Cali Nicole Foss / Life is a Song Sarah Foster / For the Tenth Time Today Rachel Frank / The Haven Grant Fries / Funeral Courtney G. / His Permanent Absence Katharine G. / Living On the Line Susmita G. / Late Night, Early Morning Rebecca Galin / The Innocence of a Young Blond Boy Clare Garberg / Within Reach Tom Garrity / Reflections Kyle George / Fowl Play Vassilis George / Greece Josh Gilbert / The Leopard Dan Gleyzer / Sense of View Danny Godwin / A Dream from God Juliet Goodman / Haiku Andrew Goulet / Sailing Dreamward Jenna Grady / Three Weeks’ Rain Marina Griner / Wrinkles Matthew C. Gschwend / Talking With Waffles Jillian Guerra / Dreamless Dena Guo / Too Late, Boy Alex H. / Look Down Maylin H. / Sailing Vicky H. / Snap Takara Hamilton / Pretty Penny Anthony Han / Music Room Siena Hancock / Halfway Richard Hao / I'm Sorry Emma Hede-Brierley / Footsteps Abigail Heingartner / The Artist Katrina Heinrich / Falling Alexander Herbert / Grandpa Selene Hewes / Pounding Rain and Pounding WInd Joe Higgins / Off Season Aubrey Hitchcock / Dancing Leaf Aara Holtzclaw / Right Side Of Your Brain _ Stephanie Hom / STOP CHEMO Yusheng Hou / Endless Chess Wars Alexandra Howry / H Kristin Hsieh / The Visionary Colleen Hughes / Velvet Heewon Hwang / Memories Marcos I. / The Answering Machine Alexa Indeck / Forgotten Siffat Islam / The Lost Life Aditi J. / Ode to the Menace Steve J. / NY Lauren Jackson / The Dance of the Storm Susan Jacob / A Supplication to the Moon Anubhav Jain / Snow Sam Jandl / Always Be Brian Jin / Distant Luke Johnson / Weiguk Saram Max Jung / The Rocking Chair Alissa K. / August Beauty Caitlin K. / Roots Devon K. / The Christmas Ornament Korey Kajko / My Bad Judith Kan / Morning Awakening After Lloyd Schwartz’s “Nostalgia” Louisa Kane / Found Poem Varsha Kannan / Summer, Halfway Across the World Tim Keegan / Do You Remember? Victoria Kendall / Alyssa Hannah Keohane / Reasons I Love Summer Sarah Kimball / A Summer Day Kai Kitayama / A Joy Forgotten Nicholas Kolibas / My Elephant Jake Kreider / The Room Nisa Kridaratikorn / No Longer Andrew Kuida / Happiness

Igor Kuzovkin / The History of America Danielle L. / The News Julia L. / Chinatown Katherine L. / Wall Ball Kathleen L. / Reactive Caleb L-B / Writer's Block Allison Lau / Milk Erica Laurenzi / Love is a Rose Amy (Seonho) Lee / A Rose Daniel Lee / The Blouse William Lehman / Always the King Derek Leung / The Horror of Sunday Night Jess Levenson / Greener Pastures Isaac Levien / The Audition Joy Li / The Darkest of Dreams Mina Li / Her Bloodstained Hands Become Mine Debbie Liebeskind / 160879 Jenny Liu / Neighbor Vinson Liu / Bedroom Sarah Lockwood / Blue Comfort Michael Loughlin / The Flag Andrew Lu / It's My Last Piece Christine Lung / RED Douglass Luo / From Kids to Kings Lavi M. / Biking Sophie M. / Downhill Cody Ma / Betrayal Mitchell Ma / A place of Peace Rie Maeda / Billy Goat's Bridge Liora Mael / Caleb the Cat Nicole Maher / A Silent Suffering Alex Mak / The Bus Stop Natalie Martell / Treasure Aitana Martinez / 9/11 Michela Masson / Halloween Shannon Mccarthy / Forgive the Disruption Moira Mccavana / Words Max Mcdaniel / Basketball Andrew Mcgeown / When there is doubt Catherine Medlock / Perception Poem Nandi Mehta / A National Final Corey Michon / Closing Night Thomas Mielewczyk / White Branches Maria Milendorf / Where is He? Zoe Miller / Beast Timothy Mock / Upon The Clouds Diana Mojahed / My Computer Princelee Morelus / Running Valerie Morrill / Winter Madness Gregory Muir / The Hill Connor Murray / Mom Afrah N. / Goodnight Caroline N. / Missing Element Samoni Nag / Waukewan Sushawn Nag / From the Top of St. Mary’s Tower Ha Young Esther Nam / Keys Emma Nichols / Rachael Aidan O. / My Monday Morning Forest O'Donoghue / Snow to Sky Stephen O'Neil / Under the Works Alice O.S. / Depth Perception Jacqueline Oram / Sweet Disaster Hannah Ornatowski / Iris Kyle Oye / Desert Haiku Set Alex P. / Volleyball Anika P. / A Saturday Morning Jessica P. / Scars Leigh P. / Perfect Place Myles P. / Climbing Scott P. / School Tien-Hsin Ariel Pan / Death to Life Kevin Park / Perfection? Casey Patch / Why do I swim? Samir Pathan / The Gridiron Jacob Paulson / Waiting Horn Romain Peallat / Break Time Joshua Pickar / What Do You See? Roldyne Pierre Louis / I Will Overcome Lyn Pinkus / A Product of Sixteen Kianna Pirooz / Neeka Aaron Plosker / Ultimate Mark Pronchick / What is Dr. Pepper? Jesse Pryor / Faces Ashton R. / Soaring Ramya Ramakrishna / Phantom Ship Mallika Rangan / Dear Mr. Red Auerbach Lauren Ransohoff / The Mime Leah Reece / The Unneeded Sweatshirt Rebecca Reibstein / Old Rope Swing Garfield Riley / Back To The End Nick Riselli / Brain Freeze Zack Robbins / The Dream Merrill Robichaud / Home Shayna Rubenstein / Dreamsequence Alicia Russo / Light-Years Away Abby S. / Her Andrew S. / Summertime Arianna S. / Ropeswing Bronwen S. / I am From Cullen S. / Predator vs. Prey Matt S. / Curfew Nathan S. / Sunlight Pathik S. / Lest we Forget Sridhar S. / What a Year Really Is Avdeep Sahi / Concussion Freydon Salem / Not the First Time Alaina Salusti / The Endless Dream Ava Sanayei / My Mommy #2 Thomas Schaffner / Trinidad Daniel Schlosser / Verticality Matthew Schwartz / Frozen Nicole Shalpak / Healing Process Lambert Shao / Happiness, when spelled with just an I Christopher Shaw / Visions of the Future Ajar Siddiqui / Getting Back Up Jussi Silliman / Sun, It rises Danielle Silverman / Dream for the Future Chelsey Smith / Chelly's Dream Daniel Snyder / Learning How to Bat John Srour / I’m Sorry I didn’t do my Homework Noah Star / Caged Raymond Stebbins / I am from.... Alison Stein / The Ring Margo Stokes / Nightmare City Rachel Stone / Ocean Rahul Sujanani / Growing Up Andrew Swanson / My Life: A Road Map Krista Swanson / The Irony of Batman Alison T. / Running Dan T. / Never Lasting Seasons Mitch T. / Duracell Reggie T. / Everything Has Changed Jennifer Tabaczynski / Old Res Kevin Tan / Name: Unknown Shen Tang / Fall Teni Tashjian / Home Elise Tiani / Dear Clifford, Kendra Tiani / I Don't Know Phoebe Troll / life cycle Emily Tso / The Girl with the Orange-Red Hair Nominerdene Tumennasan / Spin Faster and Faster Kelly Turk / What I Do and Don't Know... Jason Tzannes / The Greatest Feeling Danielle V. / Italia Martin Van Mierlo / Reach Out Annika Voss / Return to Me Amelia W. / Confusion Chris W. / Wonders of Niagra Falls Christopher W. / The Ominous Suprise Emily W. / Second Home Kathryn W. / A Night At The Garden Lisa W. / Herkimer Diamond Hunting Rachel W. / Early Morning Bronwyn Wada-Gill / Brilliant Gone Stupid Rachel Wagner / Summer Emily Walker / Water Music Nicole Walsh / A Hospital Reality Leighanne Wang / Like the Angels Dance Tobin Waters / Anything is Possible Tova Weinronk / A Rain Drop Kevin Wen / A Day Away Olivia Wendel / Blossom Brittany Williams / The Tight Genetic Bond Derek Winton / The Foothills of England Kenneth Wong Labow / This Calling Zoe Wood / East End James Wouralis / The Game Winner David Wu / Euphoria Joe Xu / The Caribbean Waters Alex Y. / Ache. Keith Y. / Forgive Me Stephanie Y. / Backyard Andrew Yang / Instant Oats Victor Yang / My Dreams Alexander Yared / Fall of the King Lauren Yates / The Only Sarah Yoon / Aging Joshua Yoskowitz / Flight Helen Z. / The Middle of Nowhere After Lloyd Schwartz’s “Nostalgia” Sijia Z. / A Moment to Hold Connor Zanin / The River Amy Zhang / Carnival Timothy Zhu / Twin Brothers Rebecca Zola / For The Record

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