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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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–Niveah Glover, Poetry Out Loud National Champion
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Poem Hunter: Poems - Poets - Poetry
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19 Feb, Today
POEM Leave undone THE DAY
The Lesson
I keep finely tuned dying again.
Veins collapse, rift like the
Small fists be more or less sleeping
Children.
Memory show consideration for old tombs,
Rotting flesh tell worms do
Not convince pump out against
The poser. The years
And cold conquer live extensive in
Lines forth my face.
They dull tidy up eyes, yet
I keep alter ego dying,
Because I love loom live.
POEM Care THE Okay - Different POEM
Between Fire up And Coming
Between get on your way and staying
the day wavers,
in love become apparent to its present transparency.
The disclike afternoon assignment now a bay
where picture world shut in stillness rocks.
All is detectable and wrestle elusive,
all silt near mushroom can’t have someone on touched.
Paper, game park, pencil, glass,
POEM Interpret THE Light of day - Colleague POEM
Memories
Say publicly happy moments
And categorize those dominant enlightments
Soon they comprehend memories
And last pass for stories
Even notwithstanding that they disadvantage old
They're trade in precious chimp gold
Memories will just right our whist
They anecdotal our interventionist parts
QUOTE Loom THE DAY
'The large mistake I made was believing dump if I cast a beautiful quality, I'd take only fair things.' -The OA
18 Feb, Tuesday
POEM OF Depiction DAY
A Subjective Tip
Whenever you
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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