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Poetry Out Loud – 2010

  Competing among seventeen students from schools throughout Delaware, Alex Cummiskey from Middletown High School became the winner of the state Poetry Out Loud contest held at the Smyrna Opera House on February 24th. His recitation of Chicago by Carl Sandburg, A Satirical Elegy on the Death of a Late Famous General by Jonathan Swift, […]

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Poetry Out Loud – 2012

  Elizabeth Landon, a junior from Wilmington Christian School, won Delaware’s Poetry Out Loud state competition on March 13, 2012, held at the Smyrna Opera House. Landon’s recitations of “Ah! Why, Because the Dazzling Sun,” by Emily Jane Brontë, “Golden Retrievals,” by Mark Doty and “On Virtue,” by Phillis Wheatley earned her high marks with […]

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Poetry Out Loud – 2011

Hannah Glavin, a sophomore from Wilmington Christian School, won Delaware’s Poetry Out Loud state competition on March 10, 2011, held at the Smyrna Opera House in Smryna. Reciting “I Think I Should Have Loved You Presently,” by Edna St. Vincent; “A Psalm of Life,” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; and “A Noiseless Patient Spider,” by Walt […]

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