五名高中生被提名为2018年全国学生诗人
时间：2018-12-01 作者：英语课 分类：2018年VOA慢速英语(八)月
Five High School Students Named 2018 National Student Poets
Five American teenagers were officially named the 2018 National Student Poets on Thursday at a ceremony in Washington, D.C. The award is the highest honor for young poets in the United States.
The new class of poets include Alaxandra Contreras-Montesano, Heather Laurel Jensen, Darius Atefat-Peckham, Ariana Smith and Daniel Blokh. The students represent states from all over the country: Vermont, Arizona, Michigan, Nevada, and Alabama.
The teenagers were first chosen in August from among thousands of award-winning young poets in the United States.
No more than a pencil and paper
Virginia McEnery leads the Scholastic 1 Art and Writing Awards, which plays a part in choosing the national student poets. She says poetry is powerful because it is open to everyone.
“It’s so democratic, you don’t need more than a pencil and piece of paper. It’s a really good access point for young people.”
McEnery says she hopes the national student poet program will support the winners not only as writers, but as activists 2. Many of the student poets have already held literary 3 leadership positions, McEnery said.
“For many of them, they are already on the youth advisory 4 council for their library or they're running the literary mag (magazine) for their school or one of them is actually very involved in running thescholastic awards program for her state.”
As national student poets, the five young people will give presentations, performances and training on poetry and literature. They will also promote the services of libraries and museums, and volunteer in their communities.
In addition, each poet will receive a $5,000 academic award and the opportunity to learn from poet and teacher Glenis Redmond. And, they will meet with Tracy K. Smith, the current poet laureate for the United States.
McEnery says she has seen for herself how programs to support students’ creative expression can change young people’s lives.
“It’s such a hard time to be a teenager, social movements are happening in real time as they are coming of age. What better, smarter, saner 5 thing can a young person do than try to write about it?”
I’m Phil Dierking.
Words in This Story
academic - adj. or relating to schools and education?
advocate - n. a person who argues for or supports a cause or policy?
elastic 6 - adj. able to be changed?
enormous - adj. very great in size or amount?
promote - v. to make (something) more popular, well-known, etc.?
teenager - n. someone who is between 13 and 19 years old
- There was a careful avoidance of the sensitive topic in the scholastic circles.学术界小心地避开那个敏感的话题。
- This would do harm to students' scholastic performance in the long run.这将对学生未来的学习成绩有害。
- His research work was attacked by animal rights activists . 他的研究受到了动物权益维护者的抨击。
- Party activists with lower middle class pedigrees are numerous. 党的激进分子中有很多出身于中产阶级下层。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- Literary works of this kind are well received by the masses.这样的文学作品很受群众欢迎。
- The book was favourably noticed in literary magazines.这本书在文学杂志上得到好评。
- I have worked in an advisory capacity with many hospitals.我曾在多家医院做过顾问工作。
- He was appointed to the advisory committee last month.他上个月获任命为顾问委员会委员。