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The Poetry Out Loud Recitation Contest was created in 2006 by the National Endowment for the Arts under chairman Dana Gioia and The Poetry Foundation.The contest seeks to promote the art of performing poetry, by awarding cash prizes to participating schools.
The Adroit Journal Summer Mentorship Program is a free, online program that pairs experienced writers with high school and secondary students. Mentees have been recognized through the National YoungArts Foundation & United States Presidential Scholar in the Arts designation, the National Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, and the Foyle Young Poet ...
The biennial Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival is the largest poetry event in North America. [1] The 16th edition, and 30th anniversary, of the biannual event took place in Newark, New Jersey, October 20–23, 2016. [2] [3] The most recent festival took place in Newark, 17--19 October 2024. [4]
Maria Mazziotti Gillan was born March 12, 1940, in an Italian enclave in Paterson, New Jersey's Riverside neighborhood. [1] She attended Paterson public schools and is a graduate of Eastside High School. She graduated from Seton Hall University and from New York University with an MA In literature.
The students' video, just over six minutes long, gives background on the school and interviews students, administrators and an alumni on the school's need of a unified identity.
The Alfred Joyce Kilmer Memorial Bad Poetry Contest has been hosted annually by the Philolexian Society, a literary and debating group at Columbia University, since 1986, drawing crowds of 200–300 students and participants vying for the title of best of the worst. [1] Columbia faculty members serve as judges.
Starting regularly in 1972, every convention is given a motto/theme from Latin poetry or literature. [9] A theme for the following year's convention is chosen by the incoming president each year. [7] Most state-level NJCL chapters hold their own annual conventions at locations central to their attendees, where schools compete in varied events ...
Kittatinny Regional High School has already secured $5,000 and is now joined by a dozen other New Jersey schools seeking the top prize of $2 million. Kittatinny receives $5K from T-Mobile contest ...