The Hugh Henry Sarah Poetry Foundation promotes poetry as a powerful tool to further self awareness and build character.  Through it’s annual poetry prize, the Hugh Sarah Poetry Prize, the HHS Foundation encourages young men and women to develop honest and open relationships with their selves and their environments, thereby living more empowered lives.

The 2016 Hugh Sarah Poetry Competition is currently being held at the Middlesex County Juvenile Detention Center in South Brunswick, NJ.

The HHS Poetry Foundation was founded on the belief that poetry, if approached bravely, gets at the core of who we are.  By looking past our constraints of environment, gender, education and class, through poetry we can transcend who we know ourselves to be and therefore live more purposeful lives.

Hugh Wilson is a painter and writer, and the founder of the HHS Poetry Foundation.  He left Wall Street in his late 20’s to pursue a career the arts, receiving his Masters in Fine Arts in 2004, and has painted in marginalized communities all over the world.  He currently lives in Princeton, NJ with his wife and three daughters.

Hugh Sarah was a cartoonist, poet, scientist and high school star athlete.  Born to working class parents in rural Michigan he was the first of his family to attend college, graduating with his BS in Biology in 1968.   His friends describe him as honorable, funny, bright, caring and joyous.  He served in the military and died in Vietnam in 1969.

Please contact the foundation at:

HHS Poetry Foundation
PO Box 334
Princeton, NJ 08542
(917) 574-3335

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