Arts in Education Coordinator
515.281.5773
Dawn.Oropeza@iowa.gov
PoetryOutLoud.DCA@iowa.gov
Poetry Out Loud: General Information
The Iowa Arts Council is spreading Poetry Out Loud across the state!
IAC is partnering with 3 arts organizations to promote poetry in Iowa: Arts on Grand, Spencer; Gallagher-Bluedorn Performing Arts Center, Cedar Falls; and Lamb Arts LTD, Sioux City. Each organization will be providing professional development and workshop opportunities for teachers and students starting this fall! Each partner organization has appointed local professional poets to a IAC poet listing to be available for classroom and school residencies. Participating POL schools can apply through a simple funding program to bring these poets into your classroom. Click on Partner Information below to find out about the poets and the EZ 1.2.3 POL grant program!
Educators: to register your school for participation in Iowa’s 2010 Poetry Out Loud program, send an email now to PoetryOutLoud.dca@iowa.gov!
Goals:
- To encourage the nation’s youth to learn about great poetry through memorization and performance
- To help high school students master public speaking skills, build self-confidence, and learn about our literary heritage
Program Overview:
Recitation and performance are major new trends in poetry. There has been a recent resurgence of poetry as an oral art form, as seen in the slam poetry movement and the immense popularity of hip-hop music. Poetry Out Loud builds on that momentum by inviting the dynamic aspects of slam poetry, spoken word, and theatre into the high school English classroom.
The National Endowment for the Arts and the Poetry Foundation have partnered with State Arts Agencies to support Poetry Out Loud , which encourages the nation’s youth to learn about great poetry through memorization and performance.
CONTEST STRUCTURE AND AWARDS
Poetry Out Loud uses a pyramid structure that begins at the classroom level; implementing the POL curriculum into the classroom and then a classroom competition. Classroom winners advance to the school-wide and/or regional-wide competition, then to the state competition, and ultimately to the National Finals.
Iowa’s state champion will receive $200 and an all-expenses-paid trip to Washington, D.C. to compete for the national championship. The Iowa champion’s school will receive a $500 stipend for the purchase of poetry books. The first runner-up will receive $100, with $200 for his or her school library. At the National Finals, a total of $50,000 in scholarships and school stipends will be awarded as prizes.
PROGRAM MATERIALS AND SCHEDULE
Poetry Out Loud curriculum materials include print and online poetry anthologies, a teacher’s guide to help instructors teach recitation and performance, an audio CD featuring distinguished actors and writers, promotional and media guides, and a comprehensive Website. Hard copies of all materials are free for schools participating in the official program. Curriculum materials are also available for download on the Iowa and National Poetry Out Loud Website. Schools not involved in the official contest are welcome to use the online materials, without participating in the state or national competition.
If you are an educator interested in participating in the official program, please contact the Iowa Arts Council at PoetryOutLoud.dca@iowa.gov. You must register with the Iowa Arts Council by the deadline below to participate in the state competition.
Poetry Out Loud materials will be sent to interested educators in September. Participating schools will run the program during 2-3 weeks of class time through early winter. The State Poetry Out Loud Competition for Iowa will be held Saturday, March 6, 2010. Following the state finals, the National Semifinals and Finals will be held in Washington, DC, April 25-28, 2010.
You must register to be an official participant – you must be an official participant to receive curriculum materials and to participate in the state competition. To learn more or to register to receive POL teacher materials contact the Iowa Arts Council at PoetryOutLoud.dca@iowa.gov by November 15, 2009! Your school must be registered with the Iowa Arts Council by December 1, 2009 to participate in the State Competition.
For more information regarding the National Poetry Out Loud program, go to: www.poetryoutloud.org
TEACHERS! New in 2009-2010, the Iowa Arts Council is partnering with 3 arts organizations to promote poetry across Iowa: Arts on Grand, Spencer; Gallagher-Bluedorn Performing Arts Center, Cedar Falls; and Lamb Arts LTD, Sioux City. Each organization will be providing professional development and workshop opportunities for teachers and students starting this fall!
Each partner organization has appointed local professional poets to an IAC poet listing to make them available for classroom and school residencies. IAC has also created a new grant program, EZ 1.2.3. POL, to fund the residencies. No match from the school is required! Go to Partner Information to find a poet and to apply for the EZ 1.2.3 POL grant program right now!
Important Teacher Aids:
Iowa Poetry Out Loud Teacher Checklist
Iowa Poetry Out Loud Rules to Remember
Suggestions for creating a successful competition in your school
Poems Ineligible for Competition
Poetry Selection for Competition
Curriculum, Classroom Resources and More
Mrs. Biechler's Story City Adapted POL Lesson Plans, Mrs. Biechler’s
Iowa Poetry Out Loud, Jen McClung
"Metaphor, Microphones, Poetry Out Loud!" Curriculum, Dan Troxell
Classroom Resources
National Poetry Out Loud: Teachers Guide/ Overview
Step One: Request for Information and Teacher Packets
Step Two: School Registration Form
Step Three: Registration Forms to participate in State Competition
Arts on Grand, Spencer
Joanne Schar
408 North Grand Ave.
Spencer, IA 51301
712.262.4307
www.artsongrand.org
programming@artsongrand.org
Gallagher Bluedorn Center for the Performing Arts, UNI, Cedar Falls
Amy Hunzelman
Director of Education and Special Programs Gallagher-Bluedorn University of Northern Iowa Cedar Falls, IA 50614-0801
319.273.3679
www.gbpac.com
amy.hunzelman@uni.edu
LAMB Arts LTD, Sioux City
Diana Guhin Wooley, CEO
LAMB Arts Ltd
417 Market Street
Sioux City, IA 51103
712.293.0930
www.lambartsltd.org
diana.wooley@gmail.com
Mary Swander, Iowa Poet Laureate
203 Ross Hall
English Department
Iowa State University
Ames, IA 50011
O: 515.294.3373
H: 515.232.5235
H: 319.-683.2613
mswander@iastate.edu
http://www.maryswander.com/
Mary Swander is a fourth-generation Iowan who has lived in the state most of her life. She received her undergraduate degree in English from Georgetown University and is a graduate of the Iowa Writer’s Workshop M.F.A Program at the University of Iowa. She is currently a Distinguished Professor at Iowa State University and is working on a book of poetry entitled “The Girls on the Roof.”
Active in the arts in the state, Swander learned the history, landscape and culture of Iowa through such activities as the Iowa Arts Council’s Touring Arts Team and the Artist in the Schools program.
Her best-selling book of poetry, “Driving the Body Back,” is set during homesteading times in Iowa; her musical, “Dear Iowa,” is set during the Civil War in the state; and she co-authored a book of art work and science about the Loess Hills called “Land of the Fragile Giants.”
She has lived in eastern, western and central Iowa and has founded a national movement called Agarts to explore the intersection of arts and agriculture.
Swander has won numerous awards including an Iowa Author’s Award, a Whiting Award, a National Endowment for the Arts Grant for the Literary Arts, two Ingram Merrill Awards and the Carl Sandberg Literary Award.
Joanne Schar
408 North Grand Ave.
Spencer, IA 51301
712.262.4307
www.artsongrand.org
programming@artsongrand.org
Joanne Schar, who was born and raised in Spencer, has been writing poetry and journaling since high school. She got her degree in English Literature at the University of Iowa in 1969. Over the years she lived in Zaire, Cameroon, Burkina Faso, Madagascar, and Kenya. Her husband H is an international consultant in the area of agriculture economics. A year ago Joanne joined Arts on Grand as director of marketing and programming. Her published works have been limited to Lyrical Iowa, Here & There (an anthology from Kentucky), and Art Scene.
Editor, NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW
319.273.7061
University of Northern Iowa
Cedar Falls, IA
50614
USA
319.273.6455
1309 Washington Street
Cedar Falls, IA 50613
schraffj@uni.edu
319.575.0029 home
319.273.3879 office
Kimberly Groninga, UNI, teaches in the English Department at the University of Northern Iowa and is the nonfiction editor of the North American Review, the nation's oldest literary magazine. Her poetry and nonfiction have appeared in a variety of publications and her first book of poems is forthcoming from Final Thursday Press in Janurary, 2010. Kim is an animal-lover, a (very) amateur athlete, and a fan of Honey-Nut Cheerios. Visit her website at www.kimgroninga.com
Vince Gotera, English Professor, UNI, writes poems, stories, and essays. He has published three poetry collections — Fighting Kite, Ghost Wars, and Dragonfly — and the critical study Radical Visions: Poetry by Vietnam Veterans. He has appeared in such literary journals as Ploughshares and Kenyon Review, as well as in anthologies like Contemporary Fiction by Filipinos in America and From Totems to Hip-Hop.
Vince serves as Editor at the North American Review and Professor of English at the University of Northern Iowa. Besides teaching at other colleges, including Grinnell and Wartburg, he also taught high school in "a previous life." Vince earned his MFA in poetry writing and PhD in English at Indiana University.
Vince blogs on poetry and all manner of stuff at The Man with the Blue Guitar. See also his Facebook business page: Vince Gotera · Poet/Writer/Editor.
J.D. Schraffenberger, UNI, is the assistant poetry editor of the North American Review. He is the author of a book of poems, Saint Joe's Passion (Etruscan Press 2008), and his other work appears in Best Creative Nonfiction, Brevity, Dogwood, Free Inquiry, Mid-American Review, Poet Lore, and elsewhere. He is an assistant professor of English at the University of Northern Iowa.
2750 Malloy Rd
Sioux City IA 51103
712.277.2811
hey@briarcliff.edu
Briar Cliff University
3303 Rebecca St.
Sioux City, IA 51104
jeanne.emmons@briarcliff.edu
712.279.1655
Phil Hey, Briar Cliff, has been writing and teaching at Briar Cliff College since 1969, and he is now a professor in the English/Writing Department. He received a B.A. in English at Monmouth College in 1964 and an M.F.A. at the University of Iowa Writers Workshop in 1966. He also studied creative writing under Gwendolyn Brooks at the University of Wisconsin. In 1992 he won Briar Cliff's Duff Award for the Pursuit of Excellence, and in 1998 the Iowa Council of Teachers of English gave him the Literacy Award.
Published in numerous magazines and anthologies, Phil is the author of six collections of poetry: In Plain Sight, Reorganizing the Stars, Plain Label Poems, A Change of Clothes, Ballads & Songs, and How It Seems to Me. His poem "Route 39 south of Pittsville" won a Rainmaker Award from Zone 3 magazine. He has also received a dozen commissions for poems, most recently from the Catholic diocese of Sioux City. As an editor, Phil has co-edited the Iowa Poets series with Zachary Pearce of Pterodactyl Press, including Michael Carey’s The Noise the Earth Makes (and two other Carey books), Ann Struthers’ Stoneboat, and James Hearst’s posthumous A Country Man. He also edits for Celestial Light Press and The Briar Cliff Review, Briar Cliff’s national prize-winning magazine of writing and art. He designed and edited for Lucille Gripp Maharry her collection Pausing on the Attic Stairs (Celestial Light Press) which won an American Pen Woman’s Award, and most recently Pat Underwood’s Gatherings (Celestial Light Press).
Jeanne Emmons, Jeanne Emmons’ third book The Glove of the World (2006) won the Backwaters Press Reader’s Choice award in 2006. She has two other collections of poetry: Baseball Nights and DDT ((Pecan Grove Press, 2005) and Rootbound (New Rivers Press 1998, winner of the Minnesota Voices Competition). She won the James Hearst Poetry Award in 2005. Her work has appeared in Alaska Quarterly, The American Scholar, South Carolina Review, North American Review, River Styx, and many other journals. She is Professor of English at Briar Cliff University and poetry editor of the Briar Cliff Review.
Born in Louisiana and raised in Texas, she received her doctorate in English from the University of Texas. Currently, she lives in McCook Lake, South Dakota with her husband, Adam Frisch. They have two children.
Tricia Currans-Sheehan, Briar Cliff, is a professor of English/Writing at Briar Cliff University and founding editor of The Briar Cliff Review, an award-winning national literary/arts magazine. Currans-Sheehan has had stories and poems published in Connecticut Review, The Virginia Quarterly Review, Fiction, Portland Review, Puerto del Sol, Calyx, Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, South Dakota Review, Kalliope, Wisconsin Review, and many others. She won the Duff Pursuit of Excellence award, the Iowa Literary Competition, the Nancy Pickard Fiction contest and has been nominated three times for a Pushcart Prize. Currans-Sheehan won the Headwaters Literary Competition sponsored by New Rivers Press for her collection,The Egg Lady and Other Neighbor(2004) . The River Road: a novel in linked stories was released last November 2008 by New Rivers Press.
105 North D Street
Fairfield, Iowa 52556
641-472-3056
rustinlarson@gmail.com
Rustin Larson’s poetry has appeared in The New Yorker, The Iowa Review, North American Review, Poetry East, The Atlanta Review and other magazines. The Wine-Dark House (Blue Light, 2009) is his latest collection. Crazy Star, his previous collection, was selected for the Loess Hills Book’s Poetry Series in 2005. Larson won 1st Editor’s Prize from Rhino magazine in 2000 and has won prizes for his poetry from The National Poet Hunt and The Chester H. Jones Foundation among others. A five-time Pushcart nominee, and graduate of the Vermont College MFA in Writing, Larson was an Iowa Poet at The Des Moines National Poetry Festival in 2002 and 2004, a featured writer in the DMACC Celebration of the Literary Arts in 2007, 2008, and has been highlighted on the public radio programs Live from Prairie Lights and Voices from the Prairie. He is the host of the radio talk show Irving Toast, Poetry Ghost - http://www.kruufm.com and lives in Fairfield, Iowa.
EZ 1-2-3 Poetry Out Loud Partner Poets Grant
The Iowa Arts Council's EZ 1-2-3 POL grant will help bring Iowa POL Partner poets into classrooms across Iowa.
It's easy!
1. Fill it out
2. Send it in
3. Get an answer
Grant Amount
You may request up to $500 with no match requirement.
You are limited to receiving one EZ 1-2-3 POL grant per fiscal year (July 1 to June 30, annually).
Application Deadline and Notification
EZ 1-2-3 POL grants are awarded on a first received, first funded basis. Grants applications will be accepted from July 1, 2009 until January 1, 2009. Applications are reviewed daily during normal office hours until available funds are awarded.
- Within 2 weeks of receipt of the application, you will be notified by email or phone about the status of your application.
- Formal award notification and the grant packet will arrive within 30 days of the date of the grant activity
- Availability of funds will be posted on this web site until all funds are awarded
For your own planning purposes, we recommend that you submit your EZ 1-2-3 POL application at least 8 weeks prior to your event.
Eligible Applicants
- Nonprofit organizations incorporated in Iowa that have federal tax-exempt status (see FAQs for more information)
- Schools that are participating in the Poetry Out Loud program
- Area education agencies
- Local, county, state and federal governmental agencies , and tribal councils
Fiscal Agents: If your nonprofit organization does not have federal tax exempt status, you may apply through an eligible nonprofit and federal tax-exempt organization, which agrees to be the legal Applicant/Fiscal Agent for the grant activity. Refer to Fiscal Agents Policy.
Not Eligible to Apply:
- Applicants who have an outstanding late Final Report for a previously funded grant from the Iowa Arts Council.
Grant Requirements
- Agree to conduct your activity according to the Application Checklist (Part B of the Application)
- Fulfill all obligations specified in the EZ 1-2-3 POL Grant Contract
- Credit the Iowa Arts Council during the activity and in all promotional material, public notices, publications and other forms of print and electronic communication using the following language: This program is partially supported by a grant from the Iowa Arts Council, a division of the Department of Cultural Affairs
- Submit an EZ 1-2-3 POL Grant Final Report to the IAC no later than 30 days after the completion of the activity. Failure to submit the report by the due date will jeopardize the organization's ability to apply for or receive other grants from the Iowa Arts Council or the Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs until the Final Report or unspent grant funds are returned.
Application Instructions
You must download the application, fill it in, print it out, and send it in. This is NOT an eGrant program!
Applying for an EZ 1-2-3 POL Grant is easy!
1) Contact a Poetry Out Loud registered artist from the POL Partner Poets Listing
You are responsible for selecting a poet. Iowa Arts Council does not act as an agent for any artist, ensemble, or company represented in the roster. Make sure you have written confirmation that you have booked the poet (we recommend you use the IAC’s Artist Confirmation Form 
).
2) Complete the EZ 1-2-3 POL Partner Poet Grant Application, print it out and get signatures. Make sure you have included Parts A, B and C, plus a copy of your written artist confirmation.
3) Submit the application to the Iowa Arts Council. You will receive a funding notification letter in approximately two weeks. The IAC will post a notice on this Web site when all available EZ 1-2-3 POL Grant funds have been awarded.
Questions?
Contact staff Monday through Friday between the hours of 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. The office is closed weekends and state holidays. Email is our preferred means of communication.
Contact: Dawn Martinez Oropeza, Dawn.oropeza@iowa.gov, 515.281.5773
EZ 1-2-3 Poetry Out Loud Partner Poets Grant information:
Print all guidelines for this grant!
Application Instructions and Form
Frequently Asked Questions about IAC Grants
Related information:
IMPORTANT Information for Students for the State POL Competition, March 6th 2010
Contact:
Dawn Martinez Oropeza
Iowa Arts Council
Arts Education/ Community Programs Coordinator
515.281.5773 Dawn.oropeza@iowa.gov
Location:
State Historical Museum Auditorium
600 E. Locust
Des Moines, IA 50319
For driving directions from your location, please refer to an internet resource such as Mapquest.
Free parking is available in a parking garage directly across (North) from the building on Grand Avenue.
Students, Parents and Teachers are welcomed to call or email me directly with any questions regarding Poetry Out Loud!
Student Orientation: State Historical Building Auditorium
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Students need to arrive by 11:00 a.m. for a mandatory orientation.
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Group and individual photos and videos will be taken
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Students will get the opportunity to practice on stage
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The days agenda and rules will be covered
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Students will be released by 12:30 at the latest. There will be a greenroom set up for personal belongings, snacks, and practice space.
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The orientation is for students only. Parents, teachers and guardians are welcomed to explore the museum or eat at Baratta’s on the third floor of the Museum.
POL State Competition Agenda
- 12:50 - Students take their seats in the auditorium
1:00 - Welcome Statements, Cyndi Pederson Director of Department of Cultural Affairs. Introduction of Poet Laureate - Iowa Poet Laureate, Mary Swander
- Overview of evaluation criteria for audience, Susan Jellinger MC
- (Poems will be read in order that the students indicated on their registration forms)
Round One of Recitations
Round Two of Recitations - Intermission
The audience is asked to leave the auditorium at this time. Their will be refreshments in the atrium.
Students are welcomed to go to the greenroom. - Announcements of the 5 finalists
- Final Round
The five finalists will recite a third poem. Final round is followed by a short break while judges’ scores are tallied - Awards Ceremony
- State Winner may need to stay for photos opportunity and press comments.
Professional Video and Photo Opportunity for Students
A professional video of student performances will be produced as a DVD and a photographer will take photographs of students competing in the event, individually and in groups, and photographs of the students’ families.
To order a DVD and/or photos, go to www.MunozProductions.com and click on the “Extras” tab for the order form. Instructions for payment and submission of your order are on the order form. A special discount applies to orders with payment received in advance of the event. Video production and DVDs by Munoz Productions. Photographs by Maharry Photography
The 2010 National Finals
The 2010 National Finals will be held at the George Washington University Lisner Auditorium in Washington, DC. Semifinal rounds will take place all day on Monday, April 26 and the Finals will be held in the evening on Tuesday, April 27. Admission is free and open to the public.
Students can view the highlights from the 2009 National Finals at this web address:
http://www.poetryoutloud.org/news/nationalfinals.html
Iowa Arts Council
600 E. Locust Street
Des Moines, Iowa 50319
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Feb. 24, 2010
Contact: Jeff Morgan, 515-281-3858
IAC announces finalists for Iowa Poetry Out Loud contest
State champion advances to National Finals in Washington, D.C.DES MOINES – Nineteen Iowa students will gather in Des Moines next week to compete for a state championship and a trip to the 2010 Poetry Out Loud National Finals in Washington, D.C., where $50,000 in scholarships and prizes will be awarded.
The Iowa Poetry Out Loud: National Recitation Contest will be at 1 p.m., Saturday, March 6, 2010, at the State Historical Building, 600 E. Locust Street in Des Moines. The contest is free and open to the public and will include poetry recitations by each student competitor. Iowa’s Poet Laureate, Mary Swander, will offer a presentation as part of the program. Created by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Poetry Foundation, the Poetry Out Loud contest in Iowa is presented by the Iowa Arts Council.
“We are very grateful to the National Endowment for the Arts and the Poetry Foundation for supporting this event in Iowa through the Iowa Arts Council,” Department of Cultural Affairs Director Cyndi Pederson said. “The program helps students foster a greater appreciation for poetry as an art form, and it offers them an opportunity to develop public speaking and presentation skills that will last a lifetime.”
Poetry Out Loud began as a pilot project in 2005 and has expanded to include all 50 states, the District of Columbia, the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. Students participate at classroom, school and state levels for the right to compete in the National Finals.
This year, IAC partnered with three arts organizations – Arts on Grand in Spencer; Gallagher-Bluedorn Performing Arts Center in Cedar Falls; and Lamb Arts LTD in Sioux City – to promote poetry in Iowa.
The organizations provided professional development and workshop opportunities for teachers and students last fall, and appointed local professional poets to be available for classroom and school residencies. Participating POL schools could apply through a simple funding program to bring poets to their classrooms by visiting www.iowaartscouncil.org.
Last year, Mia Pierson of Roland-Story High School represented Iowa at the National Finals. She returns to the state finals this year as a junior to defend her title.
Iowa’s other past state champions include Emily Mortvedt of Roland-Story High School in 2008, Spencer Gilbert of West Des Moines Valley in 2007 and Ashley Baccam of Des Moines East in 2006.
Teachers can visit www.poetryoutloud.org or contact IAC’s Dawn Martinez Oropeza at dawn.oropeza@iowa.gov for more information. The 2010 Poetry Out Loud National Finals will be April 25-28, 2010, in Washington, D.C.
Following is this year’s list of state qualifiers:
(City/Town)
(Student)
(School)
(Poems/Authors)
(Teacher)
(Principal)
Ames
Krista Klocke
Ames Homeschool Assistance Program
Caged Bird by Maya Angelou
The Death of Allegory by Billy Collins
When I was Fair and Young by Queen Elizabeth 1
Suzanne Klocke
Shelly Larson, Ames Homeschool Assistance Program Coordinator
Ankeny
Haley Nixt
Ankeny High School
Song of the Powers by David Mason
A Satirical Elegy on the Death of a Late Famous General by Jonathon Swift
Actaeon by A.E. Stallings
Kelcy Lofgren, Tracy Tensen
Brenda Colby
Cedar Falls
Jyothi Dhanwada
Northern University High School
Chicago by Carl Sandburg
When I was Fair and Young by Queen Elizabeth I
Gitanjali 35 by Rabindranath Tagore
Ashley Jorgensen
Jim Stichter
Des Moines
Dmitri McDonald
Central Academy
Alone by Edgar Allen Poe
Blow, Blow Thou Winter Wind by William Shakespeare
It Couldn’t Be Done by Edgar Allen Guest
Denis Hildreth, Catie Miller
Dennis Johnson
Des Moines
Champagne Harrington
North High School
Sonnet XVIII: Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? by William Shakespeare
Father, Son and Holy Ghost by Audre Lorde
The Mother by Gwendolyn Brooks
Mark Rixner
Dr. Vincent Lewis
Grinnell
Nora Tjossem
Grinnell High School
Not Waving but Drowning by Stevie Smith
The Author to Her Book by Anne Bradstreet
Spring and Fall: To a Young Child by Gerald Manly
William Rudolph
Kevin Seney
Johnston
Megan Albers
Johnston Middle School
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud by William Wordsworth
Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing by James Weldon Johnson
The Enigma by Anne Stvenson
Tamara Andrews
Brian Carico
Kingsley
Burgundy Zellmer
Kingsley-Pierson High School
The Obligation to be Happy by Linda Pastan
We Wear the Mask by Paul Laurence Dunbar
Happiness by Jane Kenyon
Jayne Vondrak
Scott Bailey
Marshalltown
Gwen Morrison
Marshalltown High School
Sign by George Starbuck
The Flea by John Donne
Elegy on Toy Piano by Dean Young
Susan Fritzell
Bonnie Lowry
Mason City
Alexandra Dunlay
Mason City High School
Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe
The Unknown Citizen by W.H. Auden
Time Does Not Bring Relief: All Have Lied by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Mary Cusack Alexander
Douglas Kennedy
Sioux City
Dana Sly
North High School
Sonnet XVIII: Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? by William Shakespeare
Litany by Billy Collins
The Unknown Citizen by W.H. Auden
Crista Limoges
Linda Smoley
Norwalk
Chelsea Frazer
Norwalk High School
Old Ironsides by Oliver Wendell Holmes
Harlem by Langston Hughes
To the Virgins, To Make Much of Time by Robert Herrick
Martha Davis
Dale Barnhill
Sioux City
John-Emmett Mahon
PeaceMakers Academy
A Red, Red Rose by Robert Burns
Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe
Dulce et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen
Douglas R. Daniels
Donna Smith
Story City
Mia Pierson
Roland-Story High School
Conversation by Ai
Richard Cory by Edwin Arlington Robinson
Dona Josefina Counsels Dona Conception Before Entering Sears by Maurice Kilwein Guevara
Denise Biechler
Steve Schlatter
Tama
Amber Kaufman
South Tama County High School
Mother to Son by Langston Hughes
How do I Love Thee by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Phenomenal Woman by Maya Angelou
Sharon Campbell
James Tekippe
Waukee
Rachel Carlson
Prairieview School
Fire and Ice by Robert Frost
Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe
The Orange by Wendy Cope
Jacki Pleggenkuhle
Juley Murphy-Tiernan
Sponsored by the Waukee Area Arts Council
Waukee
Aaron Calvin
Waukee High School
Bright Star by John Keats
A Poem With One Fact by Donald Hall
One Art by Emily Bishop
Jacki Pleggenkuhle
Dr. Jody Ratigan
Sponsored by the Waukee Area Arts Council
Waukon
Katie Riese
Waukon High School
Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing by James Weldon Johnson
Barbara Fretchie by John Greenleaf Whittier
“Hope” is the thing with feathers by Emily Dickinson
Kathy Hay
Dan Diercks
West Des Moines
Kaitlin Olson
Valley High School
Gitanjali 35 by Rabindranath Tagore
Cartoon Physics, Part 1 by Nick Flynn
In Memoriam: Martin Luther King, Jr. by June Jordan
Karen Downing
Dr. Vicky Poole
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The Iowa Arts Council is a division of the Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs and works to enrich the quality of life for Iowans through support of the arts. Funding for the Iowa Arts Council and its programs is provided by the state of Iowa and the National Endowment for the Arts. More information at www.iowaartscouncil.org.
Special Opportunity for Poetry Out Loud Supporters
The Iowa Arts Council has teamed up with Maharry Photography and Munoz Productions to provide you with professional documentations of today’s’ performances. Five packages will be offered to you; you can order a DVD only, photographs only or a combination of the two. You can even get a group shot of your state finalist with their teacher and/or family.
There is an order desk in the atrium throughout the event.
Or you can order on-line. Go to www.MunozProductions.com and click on the “Extras” tab for the order form.
Instructions for payment and submission of your order are on the order form.
Maharry Photography takes candid photos to show every student at his or her best. Family and group photos will also be available.
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