Connolly School is proud to announce the achievement of fifth grader Mackenzie Alessandro, who earned third place for her age group in the Walt Whitman Birthplace Association’s 39th Annual Student Poetry Contest. This year’s contest invited students in third- through twelfth-grade students to submit original poems inspired by Walt Whitman's work, "When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer."
Alessandro's poem, titled "Beyond the Stars," stood out among…
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