NEW YORK — Five teenagers have been selected National Student Poets, a program that will have them serve as ambassadors at everything from literary readings to community service. The poets include Alexandra Contreras-Montesano, from Burlington, Vermont, and Heather Laurel Jensen of Mesa, Arizona. National Student Poets, founded in 2011, is administered by the Institute of Museum and Library Services and the non-profit Alliance for Young Artists & Writers. The students, chosen from thousands of applicants, also will meet privately with U.S. poet laureate Tracy K. Smith. “The National Student Poets are representatives of language at its best: seeking discovery, forging new modes of meaning, singing the particular music of this very moment,” Smith said in a statement.

Source: National Post August 01, 2018 12:33 UTC