Olivia Stevens, a junior at Mount Sophia Academy in Brookside, is the 2025 Delaware Poetry Out Loud champion. Stevens is an aspiring writer and vocalist who has written and published a novel entitled “The Locket Mystery” and is currently working on her second. She enjoys writing free verse poetry and short stories, which have won several awards and have been …
Two Delaware schools have been nationally recognized for closing the achievement gap and supporting the academic growth of all our students. Rehoboth Elementary School (Cape Henlopen School District) and Lake Forest South Elementary School (Lake Forest School District) have been named 2024 National Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) Distinguished Schools for the success of their students. “We are committed …
The back-to-back scholastic poetry champion won her most recent crown with a poem she says was way out of her comfort zone, but served as the perfect finale. A proud Palestinian, a powerful performer and a hopeful dentist with blooming curiosity, Hodgson Vo-Tech senior Maiss Hussein’s victory this year in the state Poetry Out Loud competition was just as sweet …
Maiss Hussein, a senior at Paul M. Hodgson Vocational Technical High School, is once again Delaware’s Poetry Out Loud winner. She went back-to-back, winning this year’s competition at the Smyrna Opera House Thursday night with her rendition of “’Hope’ is the thing with feathers” by Emily Dickinson. The poem reads: “Hope” is the thing with feathers – That perches in …
