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Left to right: NEA Senior Deputy Chairman Mary Anne Carter; NASAA President and CEO Pam Breaux; 2018 Poetry Out Loud runner-up Nicholas Amador; 2018 Poetry Out Loud third-place finalist Hope Stratman; 2018 Poetry Out Loud National Champion Janae Claxton, 2018 Poetry Out Loud judges Virgil Suárez, Dawn Lundy Martin, Robin Coste Lewis, Lavina Jadhwani, and Robert Casper; and Poetry Foundation Program Director Stephen Young. Photo by James Kegley