DCPS Student Work Published in Parkmont Poetry Festival Booklet
May 13, 2010
 The work of 22 District of Columbia Public School students appears in a booklet for this year’s Parkmont Poetry Festival, an annual event sponsored by the Parkmont School, a private school in Northwest D.C., with students in the D.C. Creative Writing Workshop from Ballou Senior High School and Charles Hart Middle School taking nine prizes.
The Parkmont Poetry Contest, a citywide competition, designates 20 winners in grades 6 through 8, and 20 in grades 9 through 12. Competition can be fierce with contestants from some of the city’s most elite public, private and charter schools participating.
This year, students from St. Albans, Georgetown Day, Benjamin Banneker, Duke Ellington and Washington Latin submitted poems for the contest.
Students submitted almost 400 poems for this year’s festival, held May 8 at the school. A panel of judges narrowed the list to 40 poems, all of which were published in the festival booklet.
Several students were on hand to read their poems to invited guests at the festival.
Ballou Senior High had four winners, more than any other school in grades 9 through 12, and Hart Middle had five winners, more than any other school in grades 6 through 8. Those nine students participate in the D.C. Creative Writing Workshop based at Charles Hart Middle School.
Two other students in the creative writing workshop, who attend M.C. Terrell Elementary and Luke C. Moore Academy, also won.
The poets include:
M.C. Terrell Elementary School
KeeShawn Murphy, grade 6
Charles Hart Middle School
Kierra Parks, grade 8
Dearren Dawkins, grade 7
Lakeisha Thompson, grade 7
Stelita Better, grade 8
Sieeda Jones, grade 8
Kelly Miller Middle School
Cortez Dargin, grade 7;
Youth Services Center
Tyania Saddler, grade 7
Kendra Gaddy, grade 11
Brianna Anderson, grade 9
Mekiala Hawley, grade 10
West Education Campus
Chioma Aneke, grade 7
Ballou Senior High School
Nichell Kee, grade 11
Tamera Pearson, grade 9
SeQuan Wilson, grade 11
Maryum Abdullah, grade 12
Duke Ellington School of the Arts
Cara Racin, grade 10
Dayanira Hough, grade 9
Lauryn Nesbitt, grade 9,
Luke C. Moore Academy
Jessica Carpenter, grade 12
Benjamin Banneker Academic High School
Donae Owens, grade 10
Ife Huria, grade 10
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