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Published - Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Students will have poems published

Nine Coulee Region Christian School elementary students have had poems they submitted accepted for publication in Creative Communication’s Spring Poetry Contest.

The students were competing against thousands of other students across the upper Midwest.

Unlike other contests which accept a majority of submissions, Creative Communication accepts only about 45 percent of its entries.

The CRCS students were in Molly Misany’s third- through fourth-grade class. All 12 of the students in the class submitted poems, and nine were accepted.

Creative Communication’s editor Tom Worthen said it speaks highly of the CRCS class that three-fourths of the class will be in the publication.

“If you have a class that has a high percentage of its entries accepted for publication, it sends a message that the teacher is doing a good job teaching language and writing skills and that the students are getting it,” Worthen said.

Creative Communication takes about six months to fully compile and edit the accepted poems, so the spring 2008 edition of “A Celebration of Young Poets” with the CRCS students’ poems will come out some time in October. The contest has been annual since 1993, and there have been editions every year since then.

CRCS students who will have their poems published in the book are Brianna Denney of West Salem; Alyssa Lambrecht of Rockland; Laura Winkler, Joel VanDyken and Emily Smith of Onalaska; Alyssa Billman, Josey Miller and Abigail Lester of La Crosse; and Hannah Cuda of Brownsville, Minn.

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