Washington Poetry Ourselves 2024

Tod Marshall, 2016-2018 Washington State Poet Laureate, celebrates and announces the student finalists in the 2024 Poetry Ourselves Competition.
Poetry Ourselves is an optional, original poetry contest open to students who are school champions and students participating in POL Virtual in Washington’s Poetry Out Loud program.
First Place: Luca Artz, Mount Si High School (Snoqualmie) - “The Recipe”
Honorable Mention: Leki Albright, Liberty Bell High School (Winthrop) - “In Betweens”
Honorable Mention: Nascha Martinez, POL Virtual - Stanford Online High School (Kingston) - “A Generation’s Soliloquy”
All poems are the copyright of the authors, used here with their permission.
Video courtesy ArtsWA and Tod Marshall.