by admin | Apr 17, 2026 | 2026, Feature, Judges, MCYPL, MCYPL Judge, Uncategorized
Kate Jaworski is co-founder and Executive Director of Norristown Page Turners, a nonprofit supporting youth literacy and book access. She is also co-founder of Recycle Read Repeat, Norristown’s only bookstore. She served for 14 years in Philadelphia as an...
by admin | Oct 23, 2025 | 2026, Feature, Poet Laureate
John Timpane is the former Books Editor and Theater Critic for the Philadelphia Inquirer. His work has appeared in, among other places, Sequoia, Apiary, Cleaver, Painted Bride Quarterly, Schuylkill Valley Journal, Vocabula Review, Tiferet, and in two chapbooks,...
by admin | Apr 3, 2024 | 2024, 2024, Feature, MCYPL
On March 25th, the five finalists for the 2024 Montgomery County Youth Poet Laureate were announced! Congratulations to Emi Maeda of The Baldwin School, Maya Brothers of Friends’ Central School, Samrithaa H.V. of Methacton Senior High School, Sofia Bagarazzi of...
by admin | Sep 17, 2022 | 2023, Feature, Judges
Gilad Jaffe is an Iowa Arts Fellow at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Originally from New York City, he holds a BA in Written Arts from Bard College where he was awarded the Academy of American Poets Prize. His recent work has appeared or is forthcoming in...
by admin | Sep 5, 2021 | 2022, Feature, Judges
Grace Cavalieri is Maryland’s Tenth Poet Laureate. She’s the author of 26 books and chapbooks of poetry. She’s had several plays, short-form and full-length, produced, most recently “Quilting The Sun,” NYC 2019. She founded, produces and hosts “The Poet and the Poem,”...
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