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Higher Achievement's Literary Love Poem a Huge Success
February 18, 2009 - Over 250 supporters gathered in 14th street’s GALA Hispanic Theatre, for the 4th annual Literary Love Poetry Performance that featured 10 of Higher Achievement’s 500 scholars. The Literary Love Poetry Performance is the climax to one of Higher Achievement’s signature center events - the Literary Love Poem Competition - that highlights the poetic talents of middle school students, and their ability to combine their literary knowledge with personal creativity.
The event’s audience consisted of family members, mentors, funders, general supporters and press. The audience was moved by the poet deliveries and the depth at which middle schoolers could reflect on love. Higher Achievement’s CEO, Richard Tagle, put it best, “Tonight’s Literary Love Poetry Performance was simply spectacular. The scholar poets were simply remarkable – poised, eloquent, and moving. They teach us that young people, at their age, are absorbing the world and all it has to offer through various views and we are only enriched by that.”
The evening’s featured poets delivered inspiring poetry that focused on everything from the love of one’s niece, to the idea that love is equivalent to anger. The featured scholars represent Wards 1, 4, 6 and 7 in the District, and Alexandria, Virginia.
The featured poets are listed below:
AX:
Ghazal Khammash 6th gradeà What Love’s All About
Alexandra Daniels 8th grade à ¿Qué es amor?
W1:
Tokunbo Adedeinde 8th grade à Love is Anger
Elexia Alleyne X grade à Fast Like the Wind
W4:
Chioma Aneke 6th grade à Take Me Back
Trey Hernandez à I never got anything with his name on it
W6:
Babatunde Bello X grade à Final Verdict: Recognizing L.O.V.E
Noel Edwards X grade à My Sassy Classy Jazzy
W7:
Greglena Sanders 7th grade à A world without love (A world with love)
Naomi Lyle 6th grade à I Love Me
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