In March, we blogged about Raleigh Charter School student Jessica Kariisa, the winner of the North Carolina Poetry Out Loud competition. Well, she made the finals at the National Endowment for the Arts’ national Poetry Out Loud competition, along with only eight other contestants in Washington DC. Photos are up on the web. Jessica is in [...]
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Congrats to Wake High School Student Jessica Karlisa!
Friday, March 30, 2012
Our heartiest congratulations go out to Jessica Karlisa, a student at Raleigh Charter School, who won the North Carolina Poetry Out Loud competition Saturday. She is on her way to Washington, D.C. for the national finals starting May 14. “Jessica’s self-confidence and interpretation of the poems made her stand-out in this year’s competition,” said Banu [...]