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Students, teachers, parents: the deadline is approaching for our high school division contest. December 20, 2022, is the postmark deadline. The high school contest is one of two remaining contests open of three offered this year, one each for elementary, middle and high school students: High School Division (Grades 9-12) Free Verse Poem — postmark deadline…

PST’s Middle School poetry contest deadline is December 13. Get more details.

  Joy Harjo came to Johnson City recently as a literary festival keynoter and speaker in ETSU poetry classes. Those of us who heard and interacted with her were given a gift. A few months after her visit here, she was named U.S. Poet Laureate in 2019. The title for this message is from an…