Bethany Seal

Seal’s creative teaching program, “Random Acts of Poetry,” has a goal of ensuring every student at West Harrison High School will encounter a poem throughout National Poetry Month in April 2026. She wants to decrease students’ feelings of intimidation about poetry by helping them embrace it throughout various spaces at school, giving students the opportunity to have low stakes encounters with poems. Seal believes that with frequent exposure to poetry in creative ways, embracing poetry through fun and interactive “poetry challenges,” and collaboration between departments, National English Honor Society and the English department in hopes that poetry will become less intimidating and more accessible to all students. The Voya grant will be used for art supplies and prizes for participants.