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Spring Poetry Reception
April 10

LOCATION:
Red Butte Garden & Arboretum Orangerie

COST:
Garden Members: 
Free, but registration required
General Public: 
$16 Registration required

SPRING POETRY RECEPTION

April 10


Thursday, April 10 from 6-7:30 pm

Celebrate National Poetry Month with the winners of our 10th Annual Spring Poetry Contest. Mix and mingle with our poetry contest winners and enjoy live readings of their poems. After, walk through the Garden to see the winning poems on display along the Floral Walk.

Poetry contest winning poems will continue to be on display throughout April and May.

Garden members: Free | Public: $16

Space is limited, registration required for all.

Congratulations to our 2025 Poetry Contest Winners!

Adult Category:

  • Red Butte, I have Loved” by Jane Hodgkins
  • “Aromatic Acrobats” by Katherine Goodman
  • “Life as a form of resistance” by Erin Cole
  • “To Fall, To Rise” by Ciani Lords
  • “Growing Things” by Deborah Jenson

Teen Category:

  • “The Heron's Work” by Lily Renée Peterson
  • “When Spring Comes" by Milo Van Ispelen 

Youth Category:

  • “Children's Garden Fun" by Clara Hodgkins
  • “The Hatchlings” by Griffin Ferris
  • "As Spring Comes" by Daniel Robertson
  • "To the Songbird" by Sadie Johnson



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