Talk:National Youth Poet Laureate

Youth Poet Laureate Point-by-Point Evaluation
Youth Poet Laureate Point-by-Point Evaluation

Lead: This article lacks a lead. If you look at other stories on the website, you will note they have a short explanatory paragraph before the Table of Contents. The information contained in this paragraph will likely include a concise version of the section you currently have titled “Youth Poet Laureate.”

Structure: The sections of this article are presented in a sensible order. After you add a lead, the transition from the award’s foundation to the application process, selection of winners and ceremony will be quite seamless.

Balance: This article uses an impressive number of sources and no source is used more heavily than the others.

Neutrality: I found it a bit strange that you specifically mentioned the race of the award winners in the section that you did. Perhaps some context about the diversity of recipients may help make this information seem less pointed. For example, I watched the award ceremony and one of the regional finalists was a White LGBTQ advocate from Texas. Right now, this information is thrown in as a tangent and it gives the impression that you're surprised the winners are Black. Aside from this, your word choice is great, and you provide a great overview of the award.

Sources: The sources you use are high quality and you cite all your information thoroughly. However, many of the sources you chose are specifically about one winner (Amanda Gorman). I’m curious about this choice. What makes her particularly significant? I notice you have a link to her biography already…does this mean you should make the content of the award page more inclusive of all winners and nominees?

Summary of Review

1.	What does the article do well?

I want to commend you on generating your own content—That’s huge. It flows really well and you have clearly done your research to ensure that your rely on a number of reliable and timely sources. After reading the page, I learned a lot about this award that I didn’t know previously, and I have a good idea of why it is important. I also like the inclusion of the winner and nominee table.

2.	What changes would you suggest the author apply to the article?

Occasionally, your sentences get a bit long and lose meaning. For example, the sentence “To be chosen as the National Youth Poet Laureate, young people go through an in-depth application process that examines their body of work, their artistic and poetry skills, and their activities in and outside of school that show a desire and action to improve and engage their communities,” has a prepositional phrase that doesn’t match the tense of the rest of the sentence. This disrupts the flow pretty significantly. I would suggest something like, “The application process includes evaluation of a prospective winner’s work, poetry and artistic skills, as well as their in school and extracurricular activities.”

I would also suggest including more information about all the winners and nominees. Right now, you have a lot of focus on Amanda.

3.	What's the most important thing the author could do to improve the article? The biggest change I would suggest is to remove the Heading “Youth Poet Laureate” and summarize that section to use it as the lead. I would take the information about the application process and make that its own “Award Qualifications” or “Selection Process” section.

4.	Did you notice anything about the article you reviewed that could be applicable to your own article? I really liked how you consolidated so much information into a table. I have found that long lists get a bit tedious, and this is a possible solution I could consider for my own article. Again—great job starting from scratch. That is definitely one of my goals for my next round of Wiki content 

Tstanek06 (talk) 21:07, 11 November 2019 (UTC)


 * The article is neutral in tone and presents its information in an unbiased manner, and the links all worked and supported the points in the article.


 * You may want to consider reorganizing the beginning of the article somewhat. In terms of formatting, the lead usually lives up above the Contents table. You could merge the current "National Youth Poet Laureate" and "Founding" sections into a one- or two-paragraph lead section. By starting with the "National Youth Poet Laureate" section, I was left wondering what organization runs the award, when it was founded, and if it has any connection to the United States Poet Laureate position. This would be good to stick in the lead, along with a sentence on the selection process, purpose, past winners, and who holds the title now.


 * The last sentence in the "National Youth Poet Laureate" section includes "...granted to three African American teens...", but race is not mentioned elsewhere in the article and it reads a little clunky to me. You may want to look at excising that sentence entirely since the finalists and winners are discussed in their own section later.


 * Down in the "Ceremony" section, there's no citation for the information on the panelists.


 * Overall, I think this article works pretty well, although the introduction could use some rewriting.Tybrarian (talk) 04:27, 14 November 2019 (UTC)

Why not add the 2021 National Youth Poet Laureate?
Why not add a mention of the 2021 National Youth Poet Laureate to this article? She is Alexandra Huynh (age 18), a Vietnamese American from Sacramento, California. 173.88.246.138 (talk) 03:46, 28 June 2021 (UTC)


 * https://stanforddaily.com/2021/08/15/incoming-frosh-named-2021-national-youth-poet-laureate/ Kdammers (talk) 20:59, 27 May 2022 (UTC)


 * ' Faye Harrison, Alexandra Huynh, Serena Yang and Alora Young are the finalists in this [2021] year’s National Youth Poet Laureate program. " https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/kidspost/national-youth-poet-laureate-finalists-found-confidence-and-friendship-through-words/2021/03/07/7c5bfb10-7843-11eb-8115-9ad5e9c02117_story.htmlKdammers (talk) 21:14, 27 May 2022 (UTC)

Winner announced in May 2022
Alyssa Gaines was just named Laureate. https://www.npr.org/2022/05/27/1101837103/alyssa-gaines-is-named-national-youth-poet-laureate Kdammers (talk) 20:37, 27 May 2022 (UTC)


 * Please fix the chart to include the 2021 winner and change it to reflect Gaines as the 2022 winner. Also, here is the URL for the organization that does the award: https://www.youthlaureate.org/national-youth-poet-laureate/ .Kdammers (talk) 16:02, 28 May 2022 (UTC)