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Students Host Poetry Reading at Barnes & Noble

Twelve students from all grades read original work – ranging from the comic to the dramatic. They were: Maggie P. ’04, Anne N. ’05, Harry A. ’05, Chloe L. '05, Greg S. '04, Diana D. '04, Beth L. ’05, Laura B. ’06, Terrell W. ’07, Tara G. ’04, Lindsay Y. ’05, and Jenn N. ’05. Chloe and Diana MCed the event. Other McDonogh students, parents, teachers, as well as poetically-inclined passersby, formed a crowd twenty to thirty strong to watch the reading.

B & N Communications Director Brad Seibel contacted English teacher Kathie Corcoran with his idea of a high school poetry reading as part of B&N’s National Poetry Month festivities. She was delighted by the idea and turned the project over to Chloe, Greg, Diana, and David. Together, the four students approached various upper school poets and encouraged them to choose one or two poems to read.

Through Thursday, April 29, the Reisterstown Road Barnes & Noble will donate to McDonogh 15% of the proceeds from any purchases as long as customers show the appropriate voucher at the time of purchase. Paper copies of these vouchers can be found in the Lower, Middle, and Upper School offices; the Upper School switchboard; and at the Barnes & Noble cash register. Printable electronic copies can be found on the FirstClass e-mail system (in the Students Notes conference).