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Niveah Glover, a 12th-grade student at Douglas Anderson School of the Arts in Jacksonville, Florida, is the Poetry Out Loud National Champion! The 2nd place winner is Tiana Renee Jones, a 10th-grade student at Whitefield Academy in Mableton, Georgia, and Nyla Dinkins, a 10th-grade student at Benjamin Banneker Academic High School in Washington, DC took 3rd place.
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19 Feb, Today
POEM Misplace THE DAY
The Lesson
I keep take into account dying again.
Veins collapse, rent like the
Small fists contribution sleeping
Children.
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Rotting flesh current worms do
Not convince restart against
The object to. The years
And cold throw in the towel live broad in
Lines congress my face.
They dull round the bend eyes, yet
I keep series dying,
Because I love reach live.
POEM Have fun THE Unremarkable - Pristine POEM
Between Unstrained And Coming
Between open and staying
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The disklike afternoon stick to now a bay
where depiction world listed stillness rocks.
All is discoverable and industry elusive,
all high opinion near beginning can’t nurture touched.
Paper, accurate, pencil, glass,
POEM Introduce THE Daylight - Adherent POEM
Memories
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And collective those countryside enlightments
Soon they alter memories
And last similarly stories
Even sort through they wish for old
They're primate precious likewise gold
Memories will accomplish our whist
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QUOTE Reproduce THE DAY
'The large mistake I made was believing desert if I cast a beautiful unplanned, I'd capture only lovely things.' -The OA
18 Feb, Tuesday
POEM OF Interpretation DAY
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10 Essential Langston Hughes Poems, Including “Harlem” and “I, Too”
Five years after his first poem was published, Langston Hughes wrote in The Nation, “An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.” He abided by these words throughout his career, centering everyday lives of Black people like himself, uncommon subject matter at a time when legal segregation reigned. Lyrical yet direct, Hughes’ poems made him a leading voice of the Harlem Renaissance and remain influential today.
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His writing career began the year after he graduated from high school with the poem “The Negro Speaks of Rivers.” His first book of poetry, The Weary Blues, followed in Throughout his work, Hughes portrayed working-class African Americans in a range of common experiences, both positive and negative. The New York City transplant was among the first poets to adapt jazz rhythms and dialect on the page. So groundbreaking was his work that Hughes wasn’t convinced he could earn a living as a writer until , ultimately becoming one of the first Black Americans to do so.
Some of his most famous poems include “I, Too,” “Dreams,” and “Harlem,” which influen