The Cherry Center for the Arts is pleased to announce the 2010 Monterey County High School Poetry Awards. Certificates of Merit, cash awards and books of poetry will be awarded at a reading and ceremony honoring the student poets beginning at 2:00 pm on Saturday, May 1st, at the Monterey Public Library, 625 Pacific Street, Monterey.
Additionally, an anthology celebrating the work of 30 students will be published by the Cherry Center. The poetry awards are held in conjunction with the Cherry Center’s annual high school art exhibit, Thinking Out Loud.

The poetry awards have been established to recognize and promote excellence in high school poets and to develop an interest in creative expression through language. The awards are open to the public.

Get Creative!
The world around us is a place of endless fascination, fun and facts. We hope you will learn some new ways to explore your neighborhood, parks, schoolyard, backyard and wild places with the help of Monterey County High School Poetry Awards. To help instigate the creative process, the Monterey County High School Poetry Awards offer workshops to help students make the connection between place and imagination, between language and landscape. For more information, call 624-7491.

Rules:
1. Submission must be original poetry in English, Spanish or a combination of both.
2. The author must be presently enrolled in a Monterey County High School.
3. No more than three poems allowed per author, and no poem may be more than 40 lines in length.
4. There are no restrictions as to content, style, form or metrical device.
5. All entries must be typed. Student’s name, address and phone number must be printed on each poem. Poets should also retain a copy of their poem.
Entries must be postmarked by March 19th
and mailed to the Cherry Center for the Arts,
PO Box 863, Carmel, CA 93921.

This program is made possible, in part, through grants from the Arts Council for Monterey County through funding from the Monterey County Board of Supervisors, the Community Foundation for Monterey County, the Harden Foundation, the Pebble Beach Company Foundation, the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am Youth Fund, Volunteer Services for Monterey County and the Yellow Brick Road Benefit Store.

Established in 1948, the mission of the Carl Cherry Center for the Arts is to enhance the quality and diversity of artistic, educational and cultural programs in Monterey County by encouraging public programs and interactions between artists and the community: