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Flowery Branch High student wins $5k in national poetry recitation contest
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Alex Campo, 17, a junior at Flowery Branch High School, took third place in a national poetry recitation event and won a five thousand dollar scholarship. - photo by Austin Steele
Alejandro “Alex” Campo, a junior at Flowery Branch High School, said he had never given much thought to poetry – not until an assignment in an American Literature class his sophomore year compelled him to take interest, if for nothing more than a good grade.But, whereas some school assignments are completed and quickly forgotten, the poetry stuck with Campo. And it’s now earned him a cool $5,000.