Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Ms. Henry was a 10th-grade student at the time. Her competition-winning poems included "Fredrick Douglas", by Robert Hayden. 2009 - More than 300,000 students competed in the nationwide competition in 2009. First Place went to Washington-Lee High School in Arlington, Virginia student William Farley.
The 2016 competition will take place at the University of Texas at Austin on April 6–9. [4] [needs update] The increase in attendance coincides with the growth of slam poetry itself. Poets such as Individual World Poetry Slam champion Rudy Francisco have noted a general trend in the prevalence of poetry slam in everyday life. [5]
The Academy of American Poets administers several programs: National Poetry Month; [13] the website Poets.org, which includes a curated collection of poems and essays about poetry, over 800 recordings and videos of poets dating back to the 1960s, and free materials for K-12 teachers, including lesson plans; [14] the syndicated series, Poem-a ...
The words are lenses as winners of this month’s Cape Cod Times Poetry Contest capture images of the world around them. ... where he enjoys creative writing and poetry. Sophie Cabot-Black is a ...
The following Indiana colleges and universities will waive their application fees Sept. 23-27 to encourage more students to apply: Anderson University. Bethel University. Calumet College of St. Joseph
The organization promotes poetry, conducts biannual contests, and organizes workshops, meetings, readings and other events. The Alabama State Poetry Society was founded in 1968 [5] and incorporated as a 501 (c)(3) non-profit in 2015. [6] The organization is based in Huntsville and is affiliated with the National Federation of State Poetry ...
Tower Poetry is an organisation affiliated with Christ Church, Oxford that aims to promote the reading and writing of poetry in young people. The group is funded by a donation from the late Christopher Tower, and run by Oxford University lecturer, Dr Anna Nickerson.
There is no division of competition by grade level in high school academic events; all students in grades 9–12 that compete in a particular event compete against each other. Advancement is from district to region to state except in Cross-Examination Team Debate, where advancement is directly from district to state, and in One-Act Play, where ...