The State Foundation on Culture and the Arts and Honolulu Theater for Youth have announced the winners of the state finals for Poetry Out Loud: National Recitation Contest. Tiffany Polk, a student at Kahuku High School, will receive an all-expenses-paid trip (with chaperone) to compete in the National Finals in Washington, DC, on April 28-29, with a chance to win a $20,000 college scholarship. She also won $500 for Kahuku High School to use to purchase poetry books, and a $200 cash prize.
Polk recited "Still I Rise" by Maya Angelou and "Unknown Girl in a Maternity Ward" by Anne Sexton.
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