Juvenile Offenders In Utah Win National Poetry Contest




KUER Local News show

Summary: UPDATE: KUER learned late Thursday that one of the kids featured in this story, D.P., plagiarized his contest winning the poem “Drowning in Blue”. Much of the poem, including the title, was taken from the poet and novelist Ellen Hopkins. Center for Educational Excellence in Alternative Settings has removed the poem from its website and has awarded first place to a young poet from Wyoming. Several juvenile offenders in Utah got high honors this week for their submissions to a national poetry