Category Archives: Poetry

Beautifully complicated lies; An art form, really. You could call it perfected science. Einstein would have a field day. You are disgustingly intriguingly, Let me learn the ins and outs of your mind. I want to know what you were … Continue reading →

After David Foster Wallace’s “Lyndon” In your death, you have come to realize that a thing is not made greater or lesser by the alteration of an existing form. But you cannot understand how two can become one. I will … Continue reading →

Every year Newark Academy invites students, staff and faculty to submit entries to a Fibonacci Poetry Contest spearheaded by Dr. Ungaro, organized by Ms. Pursell, both of the Math Department, and judged anonymously by the English Department. A “Fib” is … Continue reading →

Last month, the Performance Poetry Club hosted a residency, a retreat where poets, writers, and thinkers can freely write and further their own creative growth. Two stations of notepads were set up in school to allow anyone in the community … Continue reading →

“A Moment of Silence” by Micah Rivas ’19 17 minutes stretch like 17 body bags dragged across a white flag like a heavy handed child who broke through the page red stripes and the smell of metal and salt in … Continue reading →

“M” by Ava Sharahy ’20 earned a Scholastic National Gold Medal in Poetry, awarded at a Carnegie Hall ceremony in June 2018. Last year Ava earned a National Silver Medal in Flash Fiction for her story, “Hero to Three.” She … Continue reading →

Bill Blaskopf is a retired Newark Academy math teacher (and active substitute teacher) who taught at NA for 40 years. He wrote this poem while touring in Israel in March on a day when his travel group had a lot … Continue reading →

Enjoy Alison Bader’s erasure poem from the book THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD by Zora Neale Hurston.

“Sweet Meat” and “Flat Cola” by Magnolia Wang ’19 received a Silver Key and Honorable Mention respectively from the 2018 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards. Enjoy Magnolia’s poetry! Sweet Meat This time a man with a beard approaches, dressed in … Continue reading →

“Familiar” by Jamie Paradis But the hard things occupy space in a way that’s Saturating, Drenching, Flooding, Like sticky honey with the cap not screwed tight enough, Seeping into the floor of the pantry wood, A problem someone will find … Continue reading →

Under the Sunset by Summer Peace The sun sets over the water in my dreams. Only in those dreams is the sky streaked with pinks Purples and blues and cotton candy clouds. The sand is soft under our toes, The … Continue reading →

“Le dernier adagio”by Amanda Cohen ’18 After “Black Swan” the movie her bleeding toes kiss open mouths trapped beneath rotted floors palms strangle white bars in haunted mirrors birds punch through knots of oil and broken nails that breed bruises … Continue reading →

Dean Tan ’18 earned a Bronze Medal for Poetry in the New Jersey Council of Teachers of English statewide writing contest for high school students.  The award ceremony was held on Thursday, April 27 in Scotch Plains, N.J., where the … Continue reading →

James Blume ’19 earned a Bronze Medal for Poetry in the New Jersey Council of Teachers of English statewide writing contest for high school students.  The award ceremony was held on Thursday, April 27 in Scotch Plains, N.J., where the … Continue reading →

Sweet Sorrow by Jamie Paradis ’20 Oops! My bad! Pardon me! Sometimes I count, using all Of my fingers, toes, Exactly how many ways there are To apologize. I’m Sorry rolls off the tongue with its Rounded vowels and- Saying … Continue reading →

October 22, 2001 by Ivy Bethea You watched the way my mouth opened No sound came out The way your cold grasped my throat, choking my words It was on that day tears streamed down Your bony hand slightly hovered, … Continue reading →

Melody Xiao ’18 won a 2016 New Jersey Council Teachers of English Bronze Medal for Poetry.       careers i (c/sh)ould never have 1. ARTIST in kindergarten there was a math workbook in which we had to draw happy … Continue reading →

This poem by Francesca Badalamenti ’18 was published in Black Fox Literary Magazine, Issue 13, Winter 2016. It is an emulation of a Ted Kooser poem written in Creative Writing class.     “Abandoned Girl” after “Abandoned Farmhouse” by Ted … Continue reading →

The following poem by Isabel Young ’17 was selected for publication by the Louisville Review and will appear in their Issue 81, Spring 2016.     Our Romance is Kamikaze: A suicide mission for which we will crash and churn … Continue reading →

The two sections of the Creative Writing Workshop jointly performed the following poems at Morning Meeting on January 30, 2016. Enjoy these unconventional valentines! The Little Things by Sam Kany You’ve always thought it strange that I feel at home … Continue reading →