(WASHINGTON, DC) Recently, Italy Ja rae Whitehead, an 11th grade student at Thomas Jefferson Arts Academy in Elizabeth, NJ, was named the 2022 New Jersey Poetry Out Loud champion. Whitehead is now advancing to the Poetry Out Loud National Semifinals, which will be broadcast on Sunday, May 1, 2022, on arts.gov. Whitehead will compete in the 1st semifinal, beginning at 12:00pm ET / 11:00am CT / 9:00am PT.
CHARLESTON — Brooke Ooten of Logan High School placed in the Top 10 at the West Virginia Poetry Out Loud competition March 12 at the Culture Center in Charleston.
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Rahele Megosha, a senior at Washington High School, won $20,000 Thursday night in the national Poetry Out Loud competition. I m still in shock; it hasn t really hit me yet, Megosha told the Argus Leader on Friday morning. I wasn t expecting to win $20,000.
Megosha was the best of nine student finalists from across the nation. She is also the first student poet from South Dakota to ever win the competition. This has been such a crazy opportunity, she said. I didn t expect any of this to happen. I had a week to prepare for (the preliminary competition), and everything has been such a journey ever since.