Backstage anxiety took hold of Rida Qureshi, but she quickly shook it off. Even though it was her fourth year competing in Poetry Out Loud (POL), she still felt the nerves. She made one last power pose...
The clapping dies down as a student takes center-stage. They raise the microphone to their mouth, take a deep breath, and recite the poem they have been working on for the past month. The auditorium goes...
The Poetry Out Loud finals (POL), NVOT’s tenth annual poetry-reciting competition, took place on Tuesday, December 17. The Lance interviewed this year’s contestants backstage while the competition...
Rida Qureshi is a regular sophomore at NVOT. She’s the kind of student who stops at Starbucks weekly to get her usual chai latte, and who aims high for grades while spending her nights studying for APUSH...
