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Mendocino Youth 2010-11

Poet-teacher Ilona Marcello and Mendocino students during Poetry Out Loud.

 

Poetry Out Loud students at school competition 2011.

 

Multi-generational poetry reading in honor of Mother's Day 2011.

 

Middle school poets published in Mendocino County poetry collection.

K-3 students turn their poems into books.

 

K-3 student poets design art
for their poetry books.

 

Imagination at work. Student creates decorative border to illustrate her poem.

 

Mendocino County Poetry Out Loud Finalists

 
neil presenting

POL Finalists in front of the Arena Theater

 

Mendocino POL Winner, Xochil Goretsky at the State Finals in Sacrmento, 2010

 

 

 
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