Portsmouth 11th grader wins National Endowment for the Arts poetry competition
PORTSMOUTH, R.I. (WLNE) — The National Endowment for the Arts said that a Rhode Island high schooler won the 2024 Poetry Ourselves spoken word competition.
Jennifer Shon, an 11th-grade student at Portsmouth Abbey School, won the competition with her poem “My Hanbando.”
The organization said the competition gives “students have the opportunity to showcase their creativity by submitting an original work of poetry in one of two categories: either a written poem or a video of a spoken poem.”
A recitation of Shon’s poem can be seen here.
