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Sunken Garden Poetry Festival

NPR

Published August 10, 2002 at 12:00 AM EDT

This week the Sunken Garden Poetry Festival features high school contributors. Jennifer Steele and Laura Mandelberg are two of the writers featured in the 10th annual Young Poets Competition, co-sponsored by the festival. They read from their poems for Weekend Edition.

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