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Photos from the Washington Regional Finals for the National Poetry Recitation Contest, April 19, 2005, at the Folger Shakespeare Library. All photos by James Kegley.

NEA Chairman Dana Gioia and finalists in the Washington Regional Finals for the National Poetry Recitation Contest.


Washington Regional Champion Stephanie Oparaugo of Benjamin Banneker High School recites "The Second Coming" by William Butler Yeats.


Wakefield High School student Brian Eberly performs "Jabberwocky" by Lewis Carroll.

Teachers of finalists enjoy the presentation.


Halle Ritter, of Washington-Lee High School, performs "If" by Rudyard Kipling.


Jamairais Malone, a senior at Duke Ellington School of the Arts, interprets "A Red, Red Rose" by Robert Burns.


Myesha Berger, a senior at SEED Public Charter School, recites "Mother to Son" by Langston Hughes.


Contestants watch their peers.


Portia Williams, 12th grade student at Bell Multicultural High, recites Sonnet CXVI by William Shakespeare.


Finalist Elizabeth Wagner of Yorktown High School performs "I am the people, the mob" by Carl Sandburg.


Ellis Hooper, from H.B. Woodlawn, presents "The Lamb" by William Blake.


Finalist Nicholas Fowler from the Avalon School recites "My Last Duchess" by Robert Browning.


NEA staff review the judges' scores to determine the champion.


Washington Regional Champion Stephanie Oparaugo celebrates her victory.


Washington Regional Finalists and Alan Cooper, director of the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation.


Photos from the Chicago Regional Finals for the National Poetry Recitation Contest. All photos by Gerber Scarpelli.

Kenneth Nole from Gage Park High School.


Damien Lee, a runner-up from Chicago Military Academy Bronzeville, recites "Harlem" by Langston Hughes.


Ekaterine Baharopoulo from CICS Northtown Academy.


Jacqueline Bernardo from Senn High School


Winner Devin Kenny from Walter Payton College Prep recites Gertrude Stein's "Susie Asado."


Runner-up Patrick Smith from Kenwood Academy recites "Chicago" by Carl Sandburg.


Twenty-four Chicago Finalists gather around the Chicago Shakespeare Theater stage.


Sima Cunningham from Whitney Young High School.


Samreen Iqbal from Senn High School.


Devin Kenny with his prize check.