Blume ’19, Damodaran ’17 & Tan ’18 Win NJCTE Bronze Medals in Poetry

Every year the New Jersey Council of Teachers of English holds a statewide writing contest for high school students. This year three Newark Academy students won Bronze Medals for Poetry. James Blume ’19 won for his poem “Transubstantiation.” Kiran Damodaran ’17  won for his poem, “Collision Theory.” Dean Tan ’18 won for his poem “Shabu.” The award ceremony will be held on Thursday, April 27 in Scotch Plains, N.J., where the winning poems will be performed by trained orators. All three poems are forthcoming on the Writing, Art & Music (WAM!) blog. Congratulations James, Kiran and Dean!