The following poems won the annual poetry contest sponsored by the Summer School. The winners were selected from 60 entrants who submitted more than 300 poems. Judges this year were Walter Clark, Denis Donoghue, and James K. Robinson.
First Prize Parker W. Swanson
Charles River Herons
There are we who watch
The shallow edges, the long grasses, we who walk
The river edges in cool summer evenings.
Insects and small fish we call and collect
Among the city's slime, washed over our river edges,
Patiently watching polluted water washing our river's margins,
Our shallow edges, our long grasses.
God's Creatures
It was easy, under light boughs
And green of summer evenings,
The innocent grasses laughing, for you
To break and yield up from a rabbit
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