POETRY OUT LOUD VIRGINIA FINALS 2020. Starting with the 2020-21 school year, Poetry Out Loud will expand to Guam and American Samoa. Angel Vargas was crowned the winner after Tuesday’s school finals with his recitation of Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley, and Spanglish by Tato Laviera. Beginning at the classroom level, winners advance to a schoolwide competition, then to regional and state competitions, and ultimately to the National Finals in Washington, DC. Other honors went to Teal Van Dyck of Bow High School in New Hampshire, who won second place and a $10,000 scholarship. This year, Poetry Ourselves submissions were judged by poet Carmen Gimenéz Smith. Shown are the 2020 Poetry Out Loud competition winners: From left: Anastasia Chevalier, second place; Eakjot Sekhon, first place, and Lara Cassity, third place. Previous winners were Cymone Van Marter (2019 and 2018), Mackenzie Woodworth (2017), Mia Stratman (2016), Lillian Cooley (2015), Claire Waichler (2014), Liam Daily (2013) and the late Tom Zbyszewski (2012). On Saturday, Jan. 9, three local high school students participated in the Lake County Poetry Out Loud county competition via Zoom, the first time the competition has been held on a virtual platform. Poetry Out Loud encourages students to learn about great poetry through memorization and recitation. L-R: 2020 Poetry Out Loud Champion Dalia Elkhatib; 2020 finalists. Ms. Henry was a 10th grade student at the time of her award. The first-place winner was Emily Maccario from Middletown High School. The winner of the L.A. County Poetry Out Loud advances to the California state contest to compete for a spot in the National Poetry Out Loud finals in May. Branden Emanual Wellington of Indiana placed second, and third place went to Alanna Rivera, of Virginia. The contest seeks to increase awareness in the art of performing poetry, with substantial cash prizes being awarded to schools that participate, and includes representatives from each of the fifty states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. 2020-21 Maryland Poetry Out Loud For the 2020-2021 year, the Maryland State Poetry Out Loud competition will be held virtually! In the coming weeks, videos of these students reciting a selection of poems from the Poetry Out Loud anthology will be released through arts.gov and poetryoutloud.org as well as on Twitter. The goal of these rules to is to expose students to poetry that they otherwise may have not had an interest in and to set a standard that all students are held accountable to. Last year’s winner, sophomore Pamela White repeated as 2021 champion and senior Nyahera Santeliz repeated as 2021 runner-up. Poetry Out Loud uses a pyramid structure. Rounding out third was Iree Mann from Syosset, New York. Photo by Ryan Upton. “We preserved our commitment to recognize the students’ passion and hard work by awarding the prizes in as equitable a way as possible.”. Representing Tennessee, Anita Norman made her home town of Arlington proud by earning first place for her performance of "Let the Light Enter" by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper. Chester High School sophomore Cat McHugh takes second place in Poetry Out Loud. Other honors went to Teal Van Dyck of Bow High School in New Hampshire, who won second place and a $10,000 scholarship. 2019 Champion Isabella Callery of Minnesota; 2018 Champion Janae Claxton of South Carolina Established by Congress in 1965, the National Endowment for the Arts is the independent federal agency whose funding and support gives Americans the opportunity to participate in the arts, exercise their imaginations, and develop their creative capacities. Charleston, South Carolina native Janae Claxton breathed life into poetry with her first place performance of C.K. The Poetry Foundation provides and administers all aspects of the monetary prizes awarded for Poetry Out Loud. (Washington, DC) - The DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities (DCCAH) is pleased to announce the winners of the 2015 Poetry Out Loud District finals. In states where the finals were cancelled, the state arts agency will receive $1,000 to either award to a state champion named at a later date or divide among the students who advanced to the state finals. swhitcher@poetryfoundation.org Burlington has picked a winner to represent the school in the state Poetry out Loud semifinals. Poetry Out Loud helps students master public speaking skills, build self-confidence, and learn about literary history and contemporary life. Poetry Out Loud is a national program to encourage appreciation of poetry. The 1st and sometimes 2nd place winners are then sent to regional competitions. The 2020 competition series encompassed 53 counties, 282 schools, and 769 teachers, reaching nearly 56,000 students statewide. Photos of all past Poetry Out Loud champions. Marta Palombo from Atlanta, Georgia secured second place, while rising star Nicholas Amador of Punahou, Hawaii took third. 2021 Poetry Out Loud National Finals to be held virtually . Daiana James, a junior at Benjamin Banneker Academic High School, placed first with her recitations of "For My Contemporaries" by J. V. Cunningham, "Ars Poetica" by Archibald MacLeish and "A Fit of Rhyme Against Rhyme" by Ben Jonson. The national championship prize is $20,000. The structure of Poetry Out Loud … The final nine (formerly twelve) then each recite two poems, and the top three (formerly five) recite a third poem. Since 2005, more than four million students from 16,000 high schools in all 50 states, DC, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands have participated in Poetry Out Loud. The runner-up prize went to Victoria DiMartile of Fort Mitchell, Kentucky, while DeVonna Daisy Smith of Reading, Pennsylvania placed third.[2]. "Making Poetry Come Alive: Poetry Out Loud 2006 National Finals", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Poetry_Out_Loud&oldid=917921495, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 26 September 2019, at 03:53. State Champions then compete in Washington D.C. for the top prize. Scottlynn Ballard from Edwardsville Senior High School (Edwardsville) was declared the winner at the Illinois State Contest of the Poetry Out Loud: National Recitation Contest held on Friday, March 8, 2019, at the Hoogland Center for the Arts in Springfield. Since 2005, Poetry Out Loud has grown to reach more than 3.8 million students and 60,000 teachers from 16,000 schools in every state, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the US Virgin Islands. Her competition winning poems included "Fredrick Douglas", by Robert Hayden; the performance of which was notably powerful. Williams' "The Gaffe." After this third poem has been recited, judges (usually celebrities of the poetry world, or well-known literary figures) select the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place winners. Each region holds its own semifinal, and sends three (formerly four) competitors to the final round. One poem must be from the Pre-20th century and one must be 25 lines or fewer. First Place went to the Representative from Washington-Lee High School in Arlington, Virginia, William Farley. Kristen Dupard of Ridgeland, Mississippi was named the 2012 Poetry Out Loud National Champion. For the third year in a row, Nicholas Amador of Punahou, Hawaii claimed a top spot, earning second place to finish off his senior year competition. Third prize went to Denise L. Burns of Lawton, Oklahoma. Ahkei Togun of Virginia Beach, Virginia wowed audiences and won first place with his recitation of "I'm a Fool to Love You" by Cornelius Eady in his unique clothing choice——shorts. Contestants have specific criteria for the poems at the state and national level. The National Endowment for the Arts and Poetry Foundation are recognizing and celebrating the 2020 Poetry Out Loud™ student champions by distributing cash prize awards, sharing videos of poetry recitations by participants across the United States, and announcing the winners of the Poetry Ourselves contest. About Poetry Out Loud Washington, DC— The National Endowment for the Arts and Poetry Foundation are recognizing and celebrating the 2020 Poetry Out Loud™ student champions by distributing cash prize awards, sharing videos of poetry recitations by participants across the United States, and announcing the winners of the Poetry Ourselves contest. Kellie Anae of Mid-Pacific Institute in Hawaii won third place and a $5,000 scholarship. Winners advance from the classroom to the school-wide competition, then to the state competition, and ultimately to the national finals in Washington, DC. The competition was open to state champions as well as students who advanced to their state final in states that were unable to hold a competition this year. By encouraging youth to learn about great poetry through memorization and performance, students can master public speaking skills, build self-confidence, and learn about their literary heritage. An annual recitation of classical poetry by high school students in grades 9-12. Poetry Out Loud is a national poetry recitation competition, open to students in grades 9-12. It exists to discover and celebrate the best poetry and to place it before the largest possible audience. One poem can account for both criteria, leaving the second and third poem open with no restrictions. in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, is the 2020 Poetry Ourselves written poetry runner-up for the poem “Going Home.”. Columbus, Ohio and Lawrenceville, New Jersey were also honored by the second and third place finishers, Lake Wilburn and Natasha Simone Vargas. He received a $20,000 scholarship courtesy of the National Endowment for the Arts. Poetry Out Loud helps students master public speaking skills, build self-confidence, and learn about literary history and contemporary life. Students select, memorize, and recite poems from an anthology of more than 1,100 classic and contemporary poems. Second place was awarded to Barbara Gooding, of Kentucky. Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube. Each state winner later performs the same three poems in Washington D.C. during the last week of April/first week of May. In order to ensure the safety and health of participating students and staff, the 2021 POL National Finals will be held virtually in lieu of holding them on-site in Washington D.C. as previously planned. This program helps students master public speaking skills, build self-confidence, and learn about literary history and contemporary life. Competitors also had the opportunity to participate in the Poetry Ourselves competition by submitting original works of poetry in spoken or written form. Second place was awarded to Ruth Haile, of South Dakota. “From analyzing poems to spending hours memorizing and honing their recitations, we know the extraordinary amount of hard work and personal effort that each student put into the program,” said Mary Anne Carter, chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts.