The Leonard Milberg '53 Secondary School Poetry Prize Contest has been in existence since1989.  Past winners include:

First Prize: $500
Second Prize: $250
Third Prize: $100

2009 Recipients:

First Place: Sadie McCarney, Scorpions
Annapolis Royal, NS, CANADA

Second Place: Tina Hanae Miller, They Dug A Great Depression/Rigor Mortis
Coconut Grove, FL

Third Place: Mitch McGuire, Crow
Upper Arlington, OH

2009 Special Honorable Mention

Nick Daugharty, Treat Me
Jacksonville, FL

2009 Honorable Mention:

Gabriella Fee, Child
Lincoln, MA

Anya Morgan, The Tunnel to China
Los Angeles, CA

Brennan Robbins, Stalin's Nightmare
Weston, MA

Rachel Rothenberg, Eulogy for Andy
Pittsburgh, PA

Katy Schneider, Crescent Revelations in Marrakesh
Madison, CT

Emily Swanagin, Coordination
Birmingham, AL

The Creative Writing Faculty at Princeton University 2009-10
Chang-rae Lee, Director Sarah Arvio Susan Choi Jeffrey Eugenides Sheila M. Kohler Christina Lazaridi	Susanna Moore Paul Muldoon Joyce Carol Oates Meghan O’Rourke James Richardson Brenda Shaughnessy	Tracy K. Smith Colm Toibin Lawrence Venuti Susan Wheeler Edmund White C.K. Williams

Past winners who have gone on to become Princeton University students include:

Daisy Bassen ’98 - "Winning the prize made me aware of the Creative Writing program at Princeton and showed me how warm and encouraging it is to young poets."

Caitlin Crounse ’99 - “It confirmed my most cherished, outlandish suspicion: that I might actually be a poet.”

Jon Queally ’00 - “Winning this prize meant that there was the possibility that I had something of value to say.”

Efe Balikcioglu ’10 - “Receiving the prize encouraged me to pursue improving my talent in every aspect here at Princeton.”