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- Pongo Releases 16th Anthology of Youth Poetry
- Pongo Partners with You Grow Girl! for 2021 Spring Pilot
- National Geographic Spotlights Youth Poetry
- Pongo Announces the Winner of 2020's Cover Art Contest!
- South Seattle Emerald Interviews Pongo
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- Unyielding Roots Calls for Poem/Story Submissions from Black Women, Teens, and Girls on their Hair
- Washington State Supreme Court Justice G. Helen Whitener Shares Poetry with Pongo
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