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In the 2025 Junior League of Washington’s Youth Poetry Contest, we had three winners. Esmeralda Parada won first place and Reginald Galloway IV won second place for 6th grade, and Zahkari Kollore won second place for 8th grade. In addition to receiving first place, Esmeralda Parada’s poem “For My People” received a special commendation for […]
In the 2024 Junior League of Washington’s Youth Poetry Contest, our students won first place for eighth grade and three special commendations, also for eighth grade. In the 2024 Parkmont Poetry Festival, eleven Workshop students were finalists and four were winners. Hart had the only winners from any neighborhood DCPS school in the city. Seven […]
In the Junior League of Washington’s 24rd Annual Youth Poetry Contest, eight of our Hart Middle School students won for eleven poems. Our writers swept the 6th grade prizes: 1st place to Kyrie Johnson, 2nd place Jayla Nelson (two of her poems tied each other), and 3rd place to Kyrie Johnson (his second poem). In […]
In the 41st Annual Parkmont Poetry Festival, seventeen Workshop students were finalists and five were winners: Michael Chase (8th), Jalen Collins (7th), Crystal Rogers (8th), and Trus’ Stevens (8th) from Hart Middle School, and Armani Thornton (12th) from Ballou Senior High School. Congratulations!
Three of our students won awards in the 2023 D.C. Public Library Haiku Contest. Crystal Rogers, Caden Rogers and Shaia Holmes won certificates and prizes in a competition through the Francis A. Gregory Library in Southeast.