Poets at Edgecomb’s Center for Teaching and Learning once again swept the boards in the Poetry Society of Virginia’s annual national student poetry competition.

In the grades 1-2 category, Fiona Brown of Brunswick’s poem “The Sun’s a Yolk” tied for second place with “Snowflakes” by Anna Kelly of Bremen. Laurel Buehner of Newcastle placed third for “Poetry Hides in My Pocket,” Grace Dempsey-Blair of Phippsburg received a first honorable mention for “Halloween,” Jasper Coffin-Williamson of West Boothbay Harbor and his “Poetry Hides in the Blackness of Night” tied for second honorable mention with “Poetry Hides in a Volcano” by Sawyer Linehan of Westport. “Things to Do if You Are a Snowflake” by Henry Kerr of Bath received a third honorable mention.

Among third and fourth grade contestants, Zoe Ruff of Bath won first place for “Grasshopper,” “My Nonnie’s Laugh” by Owen Perry of Brunswick received a first honorable mention, and Sydney Sullivan of Brunswick took second honorable mention for “Baby Bunny.”

In the grades 5-6 category, Avery Jackson of Woolwich placed second for her “Goodbye,” Teagan Guenther of Bath took a first honorable mention for “Where Poems Hide,” and Elizabeth DiGiulian of Boothbay Harbor received a second honorable mention for “Shiny Metal Braces.”

Eighth grader Morganne Elkins of Edgecomb won first place in the Poetry Society Prize Competition for “My Pearl: After Ted Kooser,” and classmate Brian McGrath of Westport took third place for “The Island.”

Each of the first, second and third place prize-winning poets received a cash award from the Poetry Society of Virginia.