Poetry Out Loud: Classroom Competition Information

Find poems here:

Recitations are judged on:

• Physical Presence
• Voice and Articulation
• Dramatic Appropriateness
• Evidence of Understanding
• Overall Preformace
• Accuracy

1. Students should explore the poems in the online anthology and choose one poem to memorize. Students can only choose poems from this online anthology.
   
   
2. Students will compete in a classroom recitation contest. It should take an average of 4-5 minutes to recite a poem and judge the recitation.

Classroom competition winners will need to memorize a second poem for the school-wide competition at West on January 30, 2020, and at East on TBD.

Langston Ward, the Washington State Poetry Out Loud Champion, was named the National Champion at the National Finals held in Washington, DC on April 30, 2013. "A March In The Ranks Hard-Prest, And The Road Unknown" by Walt Whitman was Mr. Ward's second recitation of the event.