Wesley Mann, a senior at St. Anselm’s Abbey School in Northeast, won the D.C. State Competition of the Poetry Out Loud competition last night at Woolly Mammoth Theater. Reciting poems like Matthew Arnold’s Dover Beach and John Clare’s I Am from memory, Mann edged out other talented students from Duke Ellington School of the Arts, Bell Multicultural School, Wilson, and others, winning a $200 cash prize for himself and $500 worth of poetry books for his school’s library. WAMU has some audio of the competition and an interview with the winner, who will represent the District of Columbia at the National Competition, which will take place on April 28 at George Washington University’s Lisner Auditorium.