2018 Poetry Challenge

In 2018, Highland Park Poetry challenged poets of all ages to write about Electricity (honoring the 75th anniversary of Nikola Tesla's death), Monsters (recognizing the 200th publication anniversary of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's Frankenstein) and a Golden Shovel, a poetic form created by Terence Hayes honoring the former Illinois Poet Laureate Gwendolyn Brooks. This collection represents the selected poems chosen by our guest judges Sue Roupp, Janet Hale Tabin, and Sofia M. Starnes.