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spread of our play, Lysistrata 2K5: Sistas on Strike in
the Washington
Post, June
2, 2005
Articles
"Is poetry
dead? Or, in the age of the Internet, does it offer us what nothing
else can?" by Lauren Wilcox, Washington
Post Magazine, January 15, 2012
“D.C.
Students Recast 'Our Town' for the Big City” by Bill Turque,
Washington
Post, June 12, 2010
“DCPS
Student Work Published in Parkmont Poetry Festival Booklet,”
DCPS
School News, May 13, 2010
“Hart
Middle
School Literary Magazine Dedicates Spring Edition to Late Dean of
Students,” DCPS
School News, May 11, 2010
“Writing
Workshop Changes
Students: Participants Draw Power From Words” by Moira E.
McLaughlin, Washington
Post, June 5, 2008
"Illiteracy
and Poverty Go Hand in Hand" by Matt Siemer, Street
Sense, March 10, 2008
"Annual
Poetry Slam at Ballou High School," East
of the River News, June 2007
"East of
the River: Crossing Borders through Poetry in Middle Schools"
by Nancy Schwalb, English
Journal, September 2006
"For the
Love Of Ballou: 2 Scholar-Athletes Made a Private Pact: To Nurture
Hope at a Troubled School" by V. Dion Haynes, Washington
Post, June 23, 2006
"Yesterday's
Drama – and Today's: Students Update and Perform a 2,500-Year-Old
Greek Tragedy" by Clarence Williams, Washington
Post, May 30, 2006
"Hartworks
Literary Magazine: Creatively Expressing the Voice of Youth"
by Khadijah Ali-Coleman, East
of the River News, February 2006
"An Ancient
Story of War, Updated by D.C. Students," Washington
Post, June 2, 2005
"Teachers,
students compete in poetry slam" by Denise Barnes, Washington
Times, May 2005
“Teen
poet slams opponents: War of words fought in Kay” by Blair
Payne, American
University Eagle, March 3, 2005
"Writing
Workshop" by Eliza Barclay, East
of the River News, July 2004
"Student
Poets Reach Within" by Judith Havemann, Washington
Post, May 20, 2004
"A
Slammin' Book Festival Lineup" by Mary Quattlebaum, Washington
Post, September 14, 2001
"Slamming
poetry" by Sally Acharya, American
University Eagle, March 20, 2001
"Adversity and Verse"
by Kevin Merida, Washington
Post Magazine, March 11, 2001
"Washington
Journal: Hope Rises in Real-Life Washington" by Francis X.
Clines, New
York Times, December 24, 2000
"Speak,
Children" by Colbert I. King, Washington
Post, July 17, 1999
"Poetry
at 30 Paces; In Competition With the Pros, Young Versifiers Show
Their Rhyme Has Come" by Lonnae O'Neal Parker, Washington
Post, May 17, 1999
"Voices
& Verses" by John P. Martin, WashingtonPost.com,
January 1999
"Writers
Who Could Be Teachers" by Robert Pinsky, New
York Times, June 29, 1998
"Def Slam"
by Ta-Nehisi Coates, Washington
City Paper,
May 8, 1998
"It’s
a Slam Jam, Ma’am, and That Should Be Poetry, Hear?"
by James Warren, Chicago
Tribune, April 26, 1998
"Mrs. Clinton's
Poetry Lesson; At Johnson Junior High, a Two-Way Learning Experience"
by Elizabeth Kastor, Washington
Post, April 23, 1998
"When Poetry
Means Much More Than Lovely Rhyme" by Francis X. Clines, New
York Times, December 27, 1997
"Ode and
Young; At Workshop, Students Discover Poetry and Themselves"
by Jacqueline Trescott, Washington
Post, May 19, 1996

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