Eighth grader Kayla Hay holds a copy of her poem "What Lives At the Bottom of the Lake?" Kayla recently won second place at a national poetry contest sponsored by the National Park Service.
For an eighth grade student, Kayla Hay chooses her words very carefully.
"In Mr. Davis's class we're all assigned certain writing ..." she said, and paused, searching for a synonym to describe work in her favorite class.
"Assignments," she finished. "Is that how I should say that?"
Her penchant for just the right word recently won her second place among sixth through eighth grade students in the Carl Sandburg Student Poetry Contest put on the by the National Park Service. Unable to attend the award ceremony at the Carl Sandburg Home in Flat Rock, N.C., she and her parents joined the ceremony v...
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