LibGuides: Young Pegasus Poetry Competition: 1920s Selected Poets

Congratulations Young Pegasus Poets (Alphatbetical Order by Last Name)

Congratulations to the 1927 Carnegie Library Prize Poems Selected Poets!

Judges: Dorothy Calloway, Hazel Harris, Merrill Bishop, Evantha Caldwell

Edna Jane Butler, 11
"My Winter Guest"

Guy Dancy, 8
"Play"

Ruth Darby, 14
"The Poplar Tree"

Orland Dickenson, 15
"The Phantom Ship"

Mary English Dickson, 10
"The Moon"

Hulda Marie Fairbanks, 8
"Texas Under Six Flags"

Josephine Houston, 8
"Morning Glories"

Dorothy Hovell, 15
"Nativity"

Violet King, 13
"A Cuckoo Clock"

Arno Knodel, 13
"My Hunting Trip"

Madeline Levine, 12
"Volcano"

John Walter McDade Jr., 8
"In Spring"

David McEnery, 12
"Fiddling Bill"

Robert McGarraugh, 9
"And I Tell You This Right Now"

Wilma Offer, 7
"Spring"

Bernice Pullen, 13
"Hallowe'en"

Maryann Rypley, 10
"Shells"

Fred A. Slimp, 13
"Dynamite"

Della Tarin, 16
"The Daisy"

Doris Yeargen, 8
"The Pumpkin"

Congratulations to the 1928 Carnegie Library Prize Poems Selected Poets!

Judges: R.E. Roehl, Dorothy Calloway, Merrill Bishop, Hazel Harper Harris, Evantha Caldwell

Luella Algee, 11
"The Rain"

Mary Benner, 11
"Daisies"

Jack Garven, 12
"A Rainy Day"

Siglinde Haller, 13
"The First Snow"

Josephine Houston, 8
"When the Wind Blows"

Dorothy Hovell, 16
"Beneath the Stars"

Carmen Lopez, 14
"The Sick Mouse"

Lovey Jo Mallory, 11
"The Cloud"

David McEnery, 13
"The Cruise of Saint Marie"

Josephine Niggli, 18
"Portrait of a Mexican Idler"
"A Goat Herder's Song"

Wilma Offer, 8
"The River"

Edit Ratclife, 7
"The Plum Tree"

Willard Arthur Royster, 10
"A Bumble Bee and a Yellow Jacket"

Josephine Shotwell, 11
"The Butterfly"

Edward Stanford, 8
"Blade Music"
"On the Road"

Edward Syers, 13
"A Clock"

Helen Tribble, 16
"Charm"
"Courage"

Congratulations to the Young Pegasus 1929 Selected Poets!

Although the competition was held, poets selected, and a ceremony staged, no book was published because of the Great Depression.