The Garden City Library’s adult poetry collection has an anthology of poetry Young Voices: An Anthology of Poetry by Nassau County Students, which includes poems written by Garden City students. The poets are Thomas Boland, Frank Santeramo, Kelly Brennan, James Burke, Sarah Fetherston, Brendan McGovern and Kelly O’Neill from Homestead School; Nicole Gemmiti and Michael Vincent Crapotta from Garden City Middle School; and Kristen McGeough from Garden City High School. The collection contains poems by 195 first through third place and honorable mention award winners in the Nassau County Poet Laureate School Poetry Contest. The contest for students in kindergarten through 12th grade was conducted in 2008- 2009 by then Nassau County Poet Laureate Maxwell Corydon Wheat, Jr.