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NEA Forbids State Champion In High School Poetry Contest From Going To Nationals Because He's Not A US Citizen by Artsjournal1

Nineteen-year-old Allan Monga, who arrived (legally) in Portland last year as a refugee from Zambia, won the Maine state finals of the NEA's Poetry Out Loud contest last month. All state champions are supposed to get an all-expenses-paid trip to the national finals in DC next week - but the NEA says its rules permit […]

SOURCE: www.pressherald.com at 10:18AM on April 20, 2018

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