A video of our 2024 Rain Poets event. Visit the Google Map of the 2024 WCPA Rain Poems Here
Our 2024 WCPA Rain Poets
The Worcester County Poetry Association is pleased to announce the 2024 Rain Poets and their poems! This year’s project has expanded from our typical thirteen to include an additional twelve poems written by school-aged poets in Worcester County. A team of volunteers painted these poems at bus stops around Worcester and at the schools of the winning student poets this summer using Rainworks’ hydrophobic paint and stencils as large as 18 square feet. These poems will be visible to Worcester pedestrians during inclement summer weather.
2024 Rain Poets
(in no particular order)
- Lea Bisceglia with “A Walk in the Woo”
- Laura Matthew with “[tripping over cracks]”
- J.E rome with “Dear Worcester,”
- Lori Cornelius with “[Bumpy sidewalks]”
- Emma Couillard with “Goldenrod”
- Sarah Chestnut with “I turn back, umbrellaless”
- Rosanna Garcia and Leticia Garcia Bradford with “Aging in Place”
- Pamela Gemme with “Worcester Pouring Rain”
- Edward Beale with “You Belong”
- Maia Campbell with “When you asked me to go”
- Elizabeth Bacon with “Cherry Blossom Snow”
- Marissa Eleni Lourake with “[Bridges and benches – Elm Park]”
- Fadi Yousef with “Quinsigamond Lake”
Grades 9-12
- Asa Oywech with “The Divine Voices of Worcester”
- Leandro Jean-Pierre with “[Growing up in Worcester’s embraces]”
- Aidan Moon with “A place in my heart”
Grades 6-8
- Isabella Frauches with “[I feel each drop of water soaking my clothes]”
- Dylan Stankus with “The Summer Side”
- Jaryn Hazard with “Nature of Spring”
Grades 3-5
- Cyrus Acquista with “Busy days and relaxing nights”
- Lily Joh Chestnut with “Peace”
- Finn Horan with “[MCAS buy the gum]”
Grades PK-2
- Carmyne Acquista with “Burncoat neighborhood”
- Joel Cummings with “[Out my window I see birds;]”
- Noah Cummings with “[I like nature camp]”
2024 Rain Poetry Honorable Mentions
- Maia Campbell with “Bancroft’s Notes”
- Elizabeth Bacon with “Treat Athlete”
- Peter Horan with “[Cone Island’s hot dogs]” (6th Grade)
