“Children under, say, ten, shouldn’t know / that the universe is ever-expanding…” Cennemi Diaz, the 2017 Los Angeles County Poetry Out Loud winner, recites Nick Flynn’s poem “Cartoon Physics, part 1.” Anndee Hochman writes about Poetry Out Loud, a national recitation competition for high school students, in “The Poem Chooses You” in the March/April issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
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