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Poetry Out Loud: Isabella Callery recites "Abecedarian..." by Natalie Diaz
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2025 Poetry Out Loud: Tiana Renee Jones (GA) recites “On the Death of Anne Brontë”
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2025 Poetry Out Loud: Teonna Randle (SD) recites “George Moses Horton, Myself”
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2025 Poetry Out Loud: Nyla Dinkins (DC) recites “A Satirical Elegy..."
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2025 Poetry Out Loud: Mona Koko (AK) recites “Songs for the People”
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2025 Poetry Out Loud: Kaitlyn Lubega (NM) recites “The Coming Woman”
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2025 Poetry Out Loud: Javontae Cranmo (KY) recites “We Wear the Mask”
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2025 Poetry Out Loud National Champion: Isavel Mendoza (PA) recites “Brother, I’ve seen some”
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2025 Poetry Out Loud: Hadassah Broughton (NJ) recites “Learning to Read”
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2025 Poetry Out Loud: Elisha Dalmeida (OK) recites “Perhaps the World Ends Here”
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Poetry Out Loud: Share Your Voice
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2025 Poetry Out Loud Ask & Tell: Hadassah Broughton (New Jersey)
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2025 Poetry Out Loud Ask & Tell: Javontae Cranmo (Kentucky)
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2025 Poetry Out Loud Ask & Tell: Elisha Dalmeida (Oklahoma)
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2025 Poetry Out Loud Ask & Tell: Nyla Dinkins (Washington, DC)
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2025 Poetry Out Loud Ask & Tell: Tiana Renee Jones (Georgia)
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2025 Poetry Out Loud Ask & Tell: Mona Koko (Alaska)
Poetry Out Loud 2025 Ask & Tell: Kaitlyn Lubega (New Mexico)
2025 Poetry Out Loud Ask & Tell: Isavel Mendoza (Pennsylvania)
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2025 Poetry Out Loud Ask & Tell: Teonna Randle (South Dakota)
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2025 Poetry Out Loud National Finals Announcement of Winners
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2025 Poetry Out Loud National Champion Isavel Mendoza
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2024 Poetry Out Loud: Tiana Renee Jones recites "Mezzo Cammin" (GA)
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2024 Poetry Out Loud Ask & Tell: Grisham Locke, Louisiana Champion
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2024 Poetry Ourselves: "My Hanbando" by Jennifer Shon
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2024 Poetry Out Loud: Niveah Glover recites "Self Portrait as Kendrick Lamar Laughing to the Bank"
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2024 Poetry Out Loud: Oluwabori Fadairo recites "Let The Light Enter" (TX)
2024 Poetry Out Loud: Nyla Dinkins recites "How The Dark Beginning" (WDC)
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2024 Poetry Out Loud: Grace Powell recites "Invictus" (SD)
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2024 Poetry Out Loud Ask & Tell: Tiana Renee Jones, Georgia Champion
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2024 Poetry Out Loud: Nyla Dinkins recites "Learning to Read" (DC)
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2024 Poetry Out Loud Ask & Tell: Grace Powell, South Dakota Champion
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2024 Poetry Out Loud: Tiana Renee Jones recites "Love Song" (GA)
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2024 Poetry Out Loud: Willow Peyton recites "The Poem You've Been Waiting For" (WV)
2024 Poetry Out Loud Ask & Tell: Nyla Dinkins, Washington, DC Champion
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2024 Poetry Out Loud: Ariana Kimball recites "What Women Are Made Of" (MN)
2024 Poetry Out Loud Ask & Tell: Willow Peyton, West Virginia Champion
2024 Poetry Out Loud Ask & Tell: Jessie Leitzel, South Carolina Champion
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2024 Poetry Out Loud: Jessie Leitzel recites "I Remember, I Remember" (SC)
2024 Poetry Out Loud Ask & Tell: Oluwabori Fadairo, Texas Champion
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2024 Poetry Out Loud Ask & Tell: Poetry Out Loud National Champion Niveah Glover (FL)
2024 Poetry Out Loud Ask & Tell: Ariana Kimball, Minnesota Champion
2024 Poetry Out Loud: Poetry Out Loud National Champion Niveah Glover recites "We Wear the Mask"
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2024 Poetry Ourselves: "My Life is Measured in Shades of Green" by Lexie Wilson
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2024 Poetry Out Loud: Grisham Locke recites "Epitaph" (LA)
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Poetry Out Loud: Madison Harris recites "We Are Not Responsible" by Harryette Mullen (2023)
Poetry Out Loud: Edward Wilson Jr. recites "Beautiful Wreckage" by W.D Ehrhart (2023)
Poetry Out Loud Ask & Tell: Wica-ta-wi Hoksina Brown, 2023 Montana Champion
Poetry Out Loud Ask & Tell: Stella Wright, 2023 Minnesota Champion
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2023 Poetry Ourselves: “Let Them See the Sun” by Catherine Wooten
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Poetry Out Loud: Announcement of the 2023 Winners
Poetry Out Loud: Sreepadaarchana Munjuluri recites "The New Colossus" by Emma Lazarus
Poetry Out Loud Ask & Tell: Edward Wilson Jr., 2023 Mississippi Champion
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Poetry Out Loud Ask & Tell: Victoria Laine Jelks, 2023 Kansas Champion
Poetry Out Loud Ask & Tell: Abby Sullivan, 2023 North Carolina Champion
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2023 Poetry Ourselves: “The Season of Being” by Stella Wright
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Poetry Out Loud Ask & Tell: Sreepadaarchana Munjuluri, 2023 National Champion (Indiana)
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Poetry Out Loud Ask & Tell: Morgan Sprouse, 2023 West Virginia Champion
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Poetry Out Loud Ask & Tell: Mariam Botana de Armas, 2023 Texas Champion
Poetry Out Loud Ask & Tell: Madison Harris, 2023 Maryland Champion
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Poetry Out Loud Judge Ask & Tell: Candice Iloh
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Poetry Out Loud Judge Ask & Tell: Rosa Joshi
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Poetry Out Loud Judge Ask & Tell: Francisco Aragón
Poetry Out Loud Judge Ask & Tell: Marcus Wicker
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Poetry Out Loud Judge Ask & Tell: Joan Naviyuk Kane
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Poetry Out Loud: Oscar Manuel Landa Samano recites “Spanglish”
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Meet Aidyn Lorin Jai Reid, Colorado’s 2022 Poetry Out Loud Champion
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Meet Mario Grugan, Pennsylvania’s 2022 Poetry Out Loud Champion
Announcing the 2022 Poetry Out Loud National Champion
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Meet Mia Ronn, 2022 Poetry Out Loud National Champion
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Meet Pamela White, New York’s 2022 Poetry Out Loud Champion
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Poetry Out Loud: Aidyn Lorin Jai Reid recites “This Is Not a Small Voice”
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Meet Gabriella Burwell, North Carolina’s 2022 Poetry Out Loud Champion
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Meet Jacob Simmons, Louisiana’s 2022 Poetry Out Loud Champion
Meet Kendall Grimes, Tennessee’s 2022 Poetry Out Loud Champion
Meet Alexandra Rose Zaleski, Nebraska’s 2022 Poetry Out Loud Champion
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Poetry Out Loud: Mia Ronn recites “the world is about to end and my grandparents are in love”
Meet Oscar Manuel Landa Samano, Arizona’s 2022 Poetry Out Loud Champion
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Poetry Out Loud Ask and Tell: Kendall Grimes, 2022 Tennessee Champion
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Poetry Out Loud Ask and Tell: Aidyn Lorin Jai Reid, 2022 Colorado Champion
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Poetry Out Loud Ask and Tell: Gabriella Burwell, 2022 North Carolina Champion
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Poetry Out Loud Ask and Tell: Pamela White, 2022 New York Champion
Poetry Out Loud Ask and Tell: Alexandra Rose Zaleski, 2022 Nebraska Champion
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Poetry Out Loud Ask and Tell: Oscar Manuel Landa Samano, 2022 Arizona Champion
Poetry Out Loud Ask and Tell: Mario Grugan, 2022 Pennsylvania Champion
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Poetry Out Loud Ask and Tell: Mia Ronn, 2022 California Champion
Poetry Out Loud Ask and Tell: Jacob Simmons, 2022 Louisiana Champion
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2022 Poetry Ourselves: “Voicemail” by Audrey-Rose Sevaaetasi
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2022 Poetry Ourselves: “Mundane” by Hannah Dayaget
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2016 Poetry Out Loud: Wenmimareba Klobah Collins recites "Written by Himself" by Gregory Pardlo
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Highlights from the 2021 Poetry Out Loud National Finals
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Announcing the 2021 Poetry Out Loud National Champion!
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Poetry Out Loud Ask and Tell: Soojin Park, 2021 Alabama Champion
Poetry Out Loud Ask and Tell: Kaden A. Hughes, 2021 U.S. Virgin Islands Champion
Poetry Out Loud: Kendall Grimes recites "gravity furnace" by francine j. harris
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Poetry Out Loud Ask and Tell: Ben Long, 2021 West Virginia Champion
Poetry Out Loud Ask and Tell: Kendall Grimes, 2021 Tennessee Champion
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Poetry Out Loud Ask and Tell: Irén Hangen Vázquez, 2021 Vermont Champion
Poetry Out Loud: Rahele Megosha recites "Fairy Tale with Laryngitis and Resignation Letter"
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Poetry Out Loud: Soojin Park recites "Say Grace" by Emily Jungmin Yoon
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Poetry Out Loud Ask and Tell: Aidyn Reid, 2021 Colorado Champion
Poetry Out Loud Ask and Tell: Rahele Megosha, 2021 South Dakota Champion
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Poetry Out Loud Ask and Tell: Alexandra Rose Zaleski, 2021 Nebraska Champion
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Poetry Out Loud Ask and Tell: Samuel Eluemunoh, 2021 Texas Champion
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Poetry Out Loud: Alexandra Rose Zaleski recites “On An Unsociable Family” by Elizabeth Hands
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Poetry Out Loud: Irén Hangen Vázquez recites “['Often rebuked, yet always back returning']”
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Poetry Out Loud: Kendall Grimes recites “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning” by John Donne
Poetry Out Loud: Samuel Eluemunoh recites “The Cross of Snow” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Poetry Out Loud: Rahele Megosha recites “Breakfast” by Mary Lamb
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Poetry Out Loud: Soojin Park recites “The New Colossus” by Emma Lazarus
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Poetry Out Loud: Aidyn Reid recites "The Days Gone By" by James Whitcomb Riley
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Poetry Out Loud: Kaden A. Hughes recites “And If I Did, What Then?” by George Gascoigne
Poetry Out Loud: Ben Long recites “An Autumn Sunset” by Edith Wharton
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2021 Poetry Ourselves: “Stitch after Stitch” by Lauren Broman
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2021 Poetry Ourselves: “Generations” by Azhane Pollard
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Poetry Out Loud: Camille Mooney recites "No Coward Soul Is Mine" by Emily Brontë
Poetry Out Loud: Zaida Rio Polanco recites "How to Triumph Like a Girl" by Ada Limón.
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Poetry Out Loud: Isobella Sophia Tatiana Marteney recites “Piano” by D.H. Lawrence
Poetry Out Loud: Ella Marroquin recites "Burning in the Rain" by Richard Blanco
Poetry Out Loud: Sydney Brooke Hodges recites "Invictus" by William Ernest Henley
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Poetry Out Loud: "Sonnet 29: When, in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes" by William Shakespeare
Poetry Out Loud: Grace Johanson recites "Holy Sonnets: Death, be not proud" by John Donne
Poetry Out Loud: Marrianna Flores recites "The Paradox" by Paul Laurence Dunbar.
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Poetry Out Loud: Max D. Feliciano Laracuente recites “They are hostile nations" by Margaret Atwood
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Poetry Out Loud: Samantha Paradero recites “Snow Day” by Billy Collins
Poetry Out Loud: Kelly Williams recites "The Idler" by Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson
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Poetry Out Loud: Santiago Max Vasquez Luque recites “[It would be neat if with the New Year]"
Poetry Out Loud: Grace M. Zopelis recites "Writing" by Howard Nemerov
Poetry Out Loud: Gabriella Franchi recites "April Midnight" by Arthur Symons
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Poetry Out Loud: Zarina Qureshi recites "to the notebook kid" by Eve L. Ewing
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Poetry Out Loud: Jessica Hay recites "Undivided attention" by Taylor Mali
Poetry Out Loud: Hadia Choudhary recites "Early Affection" by George Moses Horton
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Poetry Out Loud: Mariam Muradyan recites "Thoughtless Cruelty" by Charles Lamb.
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Poetry Out Loud: Jordan Mattox recites "It Couldn't Be Done" by Edgar Albert Guest.
Poetry Out Loud: Zhaedyn Hodge Sigars recites from "The People, Yes" by Carl Sandburg
Poetry Out Loud: Tessa Kresch recites “Zacuanpapalotls” by Brenda Cárdenas
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Poetry Out Loud: Randolph Smith recites “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” by Langston Hughes
Poetry Out Loud: Zoe Sloan Callan recites Natalie Diaz
Poetry Out Loud: Natalie Wong recites "Cartoon Physics, part 1" by Nick Flynn
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Poetry Out Loud: Tristin Vanty Emmons recites "Domestic Situation" by Ernest Hilbert
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Poetry Out Loud: Matías Coss Hernández recites "The Conqueror Worm" by Edgar Allan Poe
Poetry Out Loud: Varsha Babu recites “Harp Song of the Dane Women” by Rudyard Kipling
Poetry Out Loud: Koraly Z. Roca Avilés recites "The Kiss" by Robert Graves
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Poetry Out Loud: Jacob Simmons recites “The Conqueror Worm" by Edgar Allan Poe
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Poetry Out Loud: Katherine Nguyen recites "Life Cycle of Common Man" by Howard Nemerov
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Poetry Out Loud: Jay Mackbee recites "Worth" by Marilyn Nelson
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Poetry Out Loud: Arlinda Naomy Méndez Serrano recites "Life in a Love" by Robert Browning
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Poetry Out Loud: Faith Autumn Palma recites “Medusa” by Louise Bogan
Poetry Out Loud: Summer Vo recites "A Sign for My Father Who Stressed the Bunt" by David Bottoms
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Poetry Out Loud: Juan De La Cruz recites “Spanglish” by Tato Laviera
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Poetry Out Loud: Mary Margaret Hughes recites "Zoom!" by Simon Armitage.
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Poetry Out Loud: Sadie Chamberlain recites "Hysteria" by Dionisio D. Martínez
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Poetry Out Loud: Eloise Silver Van Meter recites “Beautiful Wreckage” by W.D. Ehrhart
Poetry Out Loud: Jay Barbeau recites “Rondeau” by Leigh Hunt
Poetry Out Loud: Olivia Slaughter recites “Passing” by Toi Derricotte
Poetry Out Loud: Charles Hsu recites “Learning to Love America” by Shirley Geok-Lin Lim.
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Poetry Out Loud: 2020 Arizona State Champion Sylvia Dale
Poetry Out Loud: Anya Barrett recites “Domestic Situation” by Ernest Hilbert
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Poetry Out Loud: Christina Brennan recites “It Couldn't Be Done” by Edgar Albert Guest.
Poetry Out Loud: Hannah Ayali Oberman recites “Blade, Unplugged” by Tim Seibles
Poetry Out Loud: Charles Berg recites "We Wear the Mask" by Paul Laurence Dunbar
Poetry Out Loud: Camille Decker recites “Mingus at the Showplace” by William Matthews
Poetry Out Loud: Steven File recites “The Mortician in San Francisco" by Randall Mann
Poetry Out Loud: Katarina Agnew recites “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” by William Wordsworth
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Poetry Out Loud: Kayla Park recites “Time does not bring relief; you all have lied”
Poetry Out Loud: Tabarjah Neal recites “A Song: Lying is an occupation” by Laetitia Pilkington
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Poetry Out Loud: Erisan Awaya recites “On Listening to Your Teacher Take Attendance”
Poetry Out Loud: Morgan Love recites "Rondeau" by Leigh Hunt
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2020 Poetry Ourselves: "I Wonder What Will Happen Tomorrow" by Tessa Kresch
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Poetry Out Loud: Lillian Phillips recites “The Good-Morrow” by John Donne.
2020 Poetry Ourselves: "Never Forget" by Eden Getahun
Poetry Out Loud: Sydney Kilgore recites “The Conqueror Worm” by Edgar Allan Poe
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Poetry Out Loud: Elizabeth Ajaero recites “Confessions” by Robert Browning.
Poetry Out Loud: Gayathri Kaimal recites “The Coming Woman” by Mary Weston Fordham
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Poetry Out Loud: Eden Getahun recites “It Is Not” by Valerie Martinez
Poetry Out Loud: Maria Kalb recites "Snowflake" by William Baer
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Poetry Out Loud: João Rodrigues Victor recites "The Light of Stars" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Poetry Out Loud: Vera Escaja-Heiss recites "To Solitude" by Alice Cary
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Poetry Out Loud: Denise Burns Recites "A March In The Ranks Hard-Prest, And The Road Unknown"
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Poetry Out Loud: Langston Ward Recites "A March In The Ranks Hard-Prest, And The Road Unknown"
Poetry Out Loud: Blessed Sheriff recites "Love Armed"
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Philip Levine and Kristen Dupard Discuss "What Work Is"
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2015 Poetry Out Loud: Maeva Ordaz recites "Ode on a Grecian Urn"
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Conversation with Maeva Ordaz, 2015 Poetry Out Loud National Champion
