Friday, February 5, 2010
Results From Nothern Final of Poetry Out Loud
The Maine Arts Commission would like to congratulate the five students who were selected yesterday, at the northern regional final, to move on to the state final of Poetry Out Loud.The state final takes place at Waterville Opera House on March 5.
Here are names of the students, their schools and the poems they recited through the three rounds of competition:
ROUND ONE
Will Whitham, 12th grade, Bangor High School
“Come up from the Fields Father” — Walt Whitman
Jorgi Young, 11th grade, Maine Central Institute (Pittsfield)
“Alabanza”: In Praise of Local 100 – Martin Espada
Rosie Ditre, 9th grade, Maranacook Community High School (Readfield)
“My Grandmother’s Love Letters” - Hart Crane
Emma Bailey, 12th grade, Messalonskee High School (Oakland)
“The Maldive Shark” - Herman Melville
Jacob Simonds,12th grade, Rangeley Lakes Regional School
“Larkinesque” – Michael Ryan
ROUND TWO
Will Whitham, 12th grade, Bangor High School
"Doña Josefina Counsels Doña Concepción Before Entering Sears"
— Maurice Kilwein Guevara
Jorgi Young, 11th grade, Maine Central Institute (Pittsfield)
“Ancestor” – Jimmy Santiago Baca
Rosie Ditre, 9th grade, Maranacook Community High School (Readfield)
“I Am the People, the Mob” - Carl Sandburg
Emma Bailey, 12th grade, Messalonskee High School (Oakland)
“Break of Day in the Trenches” - Isaac Rosenberg
Jacob Simonds,12th grade, Rangeley Lakes Regional School
“England in 1819” - Percy Bysshe Shelley
ROUND THREE
Will Whitham, 12th grade, Bangor High School
"Alabanza: in Praise of Local 100" - Martín Espada
Jorgi Young, 11th grade, Maine Central Institute (Pittsfield)
“The Glove and the Lions” – Leigh Hunt
Rosie Ditre, 9th grade, Maranacook Community High School (Readfield)
“I felt a Funeral in my Brain” - Emily Dickinson
Emma Bailey, 12th grade, Messalonskee High School (Oakland)
“The Listeners”- Walter De La Mare
Jacob Simonds,12th grade, Rangeley Lakes Regional School
“At the Vietnam Memorial” - George Bilgere
Labels:
Poetry,
Poetry Out Loud
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