NAMI Poetry Contest Top 10 Poems Selected - Vote for your Top 3!
It's time to vote!
We thank all 69 poets, NAMI NJ friends and families for getting those amazing poems to us for the 2023 NAMI NJ Dara Axelrod Expressive Arts Mental Health Poetry Contest! This year's theme is: Joy.
We received many worthy entries. After rounds of careful reading, the Top Ten Poems have been selected by our Contest Judges. The judging criteria consisted of:
Using the theme of mental health
The way the subject matter was handled
Originality
Style
NAMI NJ members and friends are now called on to vote online and help us pick the Top Three Poems. Support our poets and cast your vote by Monday, May 29, 2023.
All poems entered into the contest will be showcased on NAMI NJ's Poetry Corner webpage in the coming months. Thank you for your participation. Enjoy the poems!
Anyone can vote! Each individual can cast only one vote.
Cast your vote by Monday, May 29, 2023.
In observance of April as the National Poetry Month and May as the Mental Health Awareness Month, NAMI New Jersey hosts the Annual NAMI NJ Dara Axelrod Expressive Arts Mental Health Poetry Contest since 2014, with enthusiastic response from our community. View previous contests
Poetry is an expression of the soul as unique as every individual who puts the pen to paper. We at NAMI NJ Dara Axelrod Expressive Arts Network maintain that any creative expression of an individual is a poem whether it rhymes or not; whether it is one word or pages long. We feature a Poetry Corner on the NAMI NJ website, with a virtual poetry workshop, and the Annual Dara Axelrod Expressive Arts Mental Health Poetry Contest held every Spring.
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