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Poetry Out Loud is a FREE program for High School students. Students select poems from the National Poetry Foundation Anthology, and memorize, interpret, and recite their poems in a competition at the entry level. Two winners from each competition advance to the Regional Competition and one Regional winner advances to the State Competition.
Provide a Poetry Out Loud teacher’s guide to each participating teacher. Provide hotel accommodations at the state finals for participating schools (2 hotel rooms per school). Provide a fuel stipend of $60 for students, parent(s), and teachers traveling 100-250 miles round trip and $120 for students, parent(s), and teachers traveling over 250 ...
Poem Anthology: All poems must be selected from the Poetry Out Loud print or online anthology, which is updated every summer. Check the website to view the official POL anthology for the current school year. Only versions of poems from the official anthology may be used in the contest. Can’t Find a Poem?
The National Endowment for the Arts and the Poetry Foundation have created free, standards-based curriculum materials to support Poetry Out Loud including a teacher’s guide, lesson plans, an online anthology, posters, and video and audio on the art of recitation.
There are, however, many opportunities to make Poetry Out Loud part of a larger poetry curriculum. Can students choose poetry outside of the poems in the anthology? No. This website includes an online anthology of more than 1,200 poems. The students must choose from that online anthology, or from the print Poetry Out Loud anthology.
Poetry Out Loud helps students master public speaking skills, build self-confidence, and learn about literary history and contemporary life.
And the beneficent face of a nation. Shining with justice and truth. I am Anne Rutledge who sleep beneath these weeds, Beloved in life of Abraham Lincoln, Wedded to him, not through union, But through separation. Bloom forever, O Republic, From the dust of my bosom! Source: Spoon River Anthology (1916)
