High School Poet Laureates

     Guilford County Schools media specialists and the Friends of the Greensboro Public Library sponsor the High School Poet Laureate Project. Each high school in Guilford County is eligible to select three semi-finalists whose works will be judged and one finalist awarded the title of Poet Laureate.  The winning poems are published in a chapbook. The United Arts Council provides the funding for this project. 

2005 Poet Laureates

• Ahu Zaches, American Hebrew Academy

• Qwanasiah Rawl, Andrews High School

• Torian Martin, Dudley High School

• Kaleigh Oleynick, Greensboro Day School

• Emma Parker, Grimsley Senior High School

• Rob Walden, High Point Central

• Liana Deaton Blue, Northeast Guilford High School

• Emily Peffer, Northwest Guilford High School

• Erin Pellerin, Page High School

• Erica Gunter, Ragsdale High School

• Laura DeMaria, Southeast Guilford High School

• Lita Tickle, Southern Guilford High School

• Joanna Canipe, Southwest Guilford High School

• Catharine Cheney, Early College at Guilford

• Sarah Fleming, Weaver Academy

• Kathryn Dunham, Western Guilford High School