The Town of Carrboro is accepting submissions for the Carrboro Youth Poetry Contest.

Participants must be 18 or younger, a resident of Carrboro and a poet. The contest will be divided into elementary, middle and high school levels, and each level will have one first-place winner and one honorable mention.

Winners will read their poems in a ceremony at Carrboro Day on May 4, and first-place poems will be published in The Citizen.

To submit a poem, mail it to: Carrboro Youth Poetry Context, Attn: Kim Andrews, 100 North Greensboro St., Carrboro, NC, 27510. Submissions should include the poet’s name, address, phone number, email address and date of birth, as well as the name of the poet’s school and a little about the poet. Submissions must be received by April 4.