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I was pulling out of her school parking lot for the last time ... But I’d been sending my poems to magazines since I was 7 and believed anyone could do it. Certainly a little more poetry ...
This epistolary poem is directed to a friend of the speaker ... my mother’s voice shouting for me beneath stars which, I learned in school, are suddenly not so different from the small salt ...
The winner of the annual Georgia Poet Laureate’s Prize, a poetry competition for high school students across the state, has been chosen. Announced by Georgia’s Poet Laureate Chelsea Rathburn, the top ...
The acclaimed poem written by Amanda Gorman for President Joe Biden’s inauguration was moved from the elementary section of a Miami-Dade County public school after a parent complaint and school ...
The Florida mom whose complaints about reading material prompted Amanda Gorman's acclaimed poem "The Hill We Climb" and other books to be restricted at a local elementary school admits she only ...
Please read below for the rules, deadlines, and submission information, and check out the winning poems from last NCW. Student Submission Deadline: Sunday, October 27 by 11:59 PM ET Students must be ...