Amber V. Keller was selected as a semifinalist in the 1993 North American Open Poetry contest. The contest is sponsored each year by the National Library of Poetry.
Final competition is held this summer in Owings Mills, Md.
Her poem will be published in this fall's anthology, "A Break in the Clouds."
Amber, 14, is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ron Keller and is an eighth-grader at Central Junior High School.
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