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• Mead senior wins national poetry recitation competition

    May 2, 2013 in City on Page A1 Langston Ward, a senior at Mead High School, is the national Poetry Out Loud champion, rising to the top from hundreds of thousands of students who recited poetry on stages … 2

• Mead senior wins national Poetry Out Loud contest

    May 1, 2013 in City Langston Ward, a senior at Mead High School, is the national Poetry Out Loud champion, rising to the top from hundreds of thousands of students who recited poetry on stages … 8

• Spotlight: Ward repeats as winner at Washington poetry event

  March 17, 2013 in Features on Page D7 Langston Ward, a senior at Mead High School, has repeated his first-place win in a statewide poetry recitation competition. As Washington’s Poetry Out Loud champion, Ward won an expenses-paid trip …

• Zbyszewski wins poetry competition

  February 10, 2013 in Features on Page D6 Tom Zbyszewski, a student at Liberty Bell High School in Methow Valley, placed first in Thursday’s Poetry Out Loud competition. Langston Ward, a student at Mead High School who won …

• Book Notes: Slam poet Chris Cook will read at Auntie’s

  February 3, 2013 in Features on Page D7 Chris Cook, Spokane’s top ranked slam poet and a trumpeter with the Spokane Symphony, will make a return trip to Auntie’s Book Store this month to read from his collection …

• A star on the football field, Ward also shines reading poetry

  November 15, 2012 in Features on Page C1 As after-school activities, sacking your peers on the football field and reciting Carl Sandburg’s “Chicago,” from memory in front of an audience and judges, have a little in common. But … 2