Adults and 50-Plus

Our 2024 Poetic Musings Poetry Contest invited everyone to write poetry that is either free verse, rhyme or a haiku. Two teen (ages 13-18 or 9th-12th graders) and two adult winners (ages 19+) were selected from each poetry type.

We are pleased to announce our winners for 2024:

Teen Rhymes

• Nature's Embrace - James Cribb
• Time Piece - Miriam Jesse

Teen Free Verse

• Sheltering Hope - Maya Tanner
• Golden Dreams - Bev Ta

Teen Haiku

• Late Night Walks - Hanan Ismail
• The Spider - Estrella Funes Gomez

Adult Rhymes

• Summer's Edge: a Monotetra - Marcie Flinchum Atkins
• Ode to a Single Cup of Tea - Shaymaa Seliaman

Adult Free Verse

• Let Us Marry Again - Vanessa Stirling
• In the Path of Totality - Wes Carrington
• My Dad's Heaven - Rachel Ann Russell

Adult Haiku

• Two Hot Takes - Rhea Malaluan

Winners will receive a $50 gift card; a certificate signed by Jessica Hudson, our Library Director and Lisa Bryant, our Fairfax Library Foundation Director; and an invitation to read their poem at our Poetic Musings Celebration on Thursday, June 27 at Burke Centre Library at 7 p.m. 

Cosponsored by Fairfax Library Foundation.