Adam LeCompte, a freshman at Lawrence High School, won the school’s Poetry Out Loud contest on January 9.
Poetry Out Loud is part of a national program that encourages high school students to learn about great poetry through memorization, performance and competition.
LeCompte won reciting Lisel Mueller’s “The End of Science Fiction” and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s “The Children’s Hour.”
By winning, he advances to represent LHS at the New Jersey Region 3 competition on February 3 in Red Bank.
The second place winner was senior Jean-Adelle Tagoe and the third place winner was freshman Rebecca Jacob.
Natasha Vargas, a Lawrence alumna who placed third in the 2014 national Poetry Out Loud competition, returned to her alma mater to hand out prizes.
