Works appear on poetry trail

The Poetry Trail organized by the River of Words program at the Hudson Highlands Land Trust opened on Sept. 17. Poems written by eight students from three schools are reprinted on cloth and attached to driftwood along the trails at the Outdoor Discovery Center at the Hudson Highlands Nature Museum in Cornwall.

River of Words judge Irene O’Garden with Haldane Elementary poets Saminah Scherer, Violeta Edwards-Salas and Allie Cairns (Photo provided)

The Haldane Elementary students whose poems were selected are Saminah Scherer (teacher Jennifer Windels), Violeta Edwards-Salas (Windels) and Allie Cairns (Lisa Pray).

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