Olivia Stevens is this year's Poetry Out Loud winner.

Get to know Olivia Stevens, Delaware’s poetry queen for 2025

Jarek RutzHeadlines, Culture

This year’s state poetry crown belongs to Olivia Stevens, a high schooler who fell in love with creative writing just before the pandemic. “As I explored writing styles for prose, a book written in verse called ‘Other Words for Home,’ by Jasmine Warga, really stood out to me,” said Stevens, a junior at  Mount Sophia Academy in Brookside, who won …