Melody Xiao ’18 & Valery Tarco ’16 accepted their awards at the NJCTE Ceremony in April.
Four Newark Academy Students have been invited to read their poetry at the 30th Anniversary Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival, the largest poetry event in North America, held at NJPAC in Newark. The festival will take place Thursday October 20th through Sunday October 23rd, 2016, with National Student Poets & NJCTE Student Poets reading on Friday afternoon, October 21st from 12:35pm-1:40pm in Trinity & St. Philip’s Cathedral. Current Newark Academy students Eva Lebovitz ’16 and Melody Xiao ’18, both 2016 NJCTE Bronze Medalists in Poetry, will read their work. Alumni Valery Tarco ’16 and Michael Lee ’15, former Bronze Medalists, will perform if their college schedules allow. Dodge Poet Michael Z Murphy will work with the students prior to their performance to prepare them and do a practice run through. More information on the festival can be found here: High School Student Day. The last time this biennial event took place in 2014, two Newark Academy Gold Medalists performed. Details on that performance can be found here.