The National Student Poets Program

From this Washington Post article:

Michelle Obama and the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities are helping to create a new award honoring five outstanding high school poets who will serve as literary ambassadors nationwide.

The National Student Poets Program is being announced Monday. The young poet laureates will be chosen from a pool of writers who received national Scholastic Art and Writing Awards for poetry.

The Scholastic awards have long identified early talent. Writers Truman Capote and Joyce Carol Oates both won as teens.

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