Arts in Education Coordinator
515.281.5773
Dawn.Oropeza@iowa.gov
PoetryOutLoud.DCA@iowa.gov
Poetry Out Loud 2011
Bringing Poetry Out Loud Workshops to New POL Partner Venues across Iowa.
New for 2010-11, IAC has created a Touring Poets Team consisting of a poet, a spoken word artist, an actor, and a teacher. The team members are combining their skills and expertise to create a teacher/student workshop that will travel to the four POL Partner venues. Each POL Partner will host the workshop at least once, and will maintain a roster of local poets trained to work with Poetry Out Loud. While at partner locations, the team will also host a networking session with local poets, community theatres, and drama/speech educators to strengthen ties across the state and also to promote Iowa’s POL program.
TPT: International Poet Heather Derr-Smith, Spoken Word Artist Daron Richardson, and Theatre Educator Yvette Herman
POL Partners have appointed local poets and actors to be added to IAC POL Poets Roster. POL Roster Artists are available for classroom and school residencies. Participating POL schools can apply for an EZ 1-2-3 grant to bring a poet into your classroom.
Educators: to register your school for participation in Iowa’s 2010-11 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! Look for information on a Touring Poets Team workshop near you! Workshops will take place at our four POL Partner venues: Des Moines Social Club, Grinnell Area Arts Council, Lamb Theatre in Sioux City and the Sondheim Center in Fairfield. Workshops will focus on POL criteria such as poem selection and aspects of performance. Students and teachers both will benefit from attending this workshop.
POL Partners also have appointed local professional poets and actors to a POL Poets Roster. Artists on the roster are available for school residencies, poetry readings, coaching students for performance and to present poetry curriculum in the classroom.
You can apply for an EZ 1-2-3 grant to help fund the residencies. Go to Partner Information to find a poet and to apply for the EZ 1-2-3 grant program. Iowa Arts Council EZ 1-2-3 Grant
Important Dates |
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November 15, 2010 |
Last Day to Request POL Teacher Materials |
December 1, 2010 |
Deadline to confirm school participation |
February 14, 2011 |
Final Date for School Competition |
February 16, 2011 |
Deadline for Student Registration for State Competition |
March 5, 2011 |
State Competition at the State Historical Building Des Moines
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April 27-29, 2011 |
National Finals in Washington D.C. |
You can also talk to IAC POL representatives at the Iowa High School Speech Conference and the Iowa Council of Teachers of English Conference.
Ineligible Poems 2010-11 http://www.poetryoutloud.org/poems/ineligible.html
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
Step One: Request for Teacher Packets
Step Two: School Registration Form
Step Three: Registration for State Competition
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/
Des Moines Social Club
Matthew McIver, Artistic/ Education Director
1408 Locust Street
Des Moines, IA
917-405-2877
mwmciver@gmail.com
desmoinessocialclub.org
Grinnell Area Arts Council
Judy Arendt , Arts Director
P.O. Box 657
Grinnell, Iowa 50112
641.236.3203 or 641.990.3948
judy@grinnellarts.org
http://www.grinnellarts.org/
Tilly Woodward, Academic & Community Outreach
Faulconer Gallery
641-269-4663
woodward@grinnell.edu
LAMB Arts Regional Theatre
Diana Guhin Wooley, CEO
417 Market Street
Sioux City, IA 51103 712-293-0930
diana.wooley@gmail.com
www.lambtheatre.com
Sondheim Center for the Performing Arts
Rustin Lippincott, Executive Director
200 North Main St.
Fairfield, Iowa 52556
641-472-2828
POL Contact: Rustin Larson
rustinlarson@gmail.com
SondheimCenter.com
Touring Poets Team
Heather Derr-Smith, Poet, Educator
Heather Derr-Smith is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and the author of two books of poetry, "Each End of the World" (Main Street Rag Press, 2005) and "The Bride Minaret" (University of Akron Press, 2008). In 2009 Derr-Smith led poetry workshops in Bosnia-Herzegovina, funded by Iowa State University, the NEA and the Iowa Arts Council. Derr-Smith was the 2008 Visiting Poet in the Creative Writing and the Environment MFA program at Iowa State University and currently teaches creative writing at Grand View University.
Yvette Zarod Hermann, Theatre Educator
Yvette Zarod Hermann is a certified Master Educator of English in the state of Iowa. Yvette was the Poetry Out Loud Coordinator at Westlake High School in Atlanta, Georgia from 2007-2008, and she coached her students to the National Finals both years. She is currently an Adjunct Professor of English at Des Moines Area Community College (DMACC), and is active as a teaching artist, director, and actor with the Des Moines Social Club. A double-major in English and Theatre at the University of Notre Dame, Yvette integrates the performing arts into her teaching and work with young people. You have heard of "educational theatre"; Yvette's method is education by theatre.
Daron Richardson, Spoken Word Artists
Daron V. Richardson is a native Iowan—born in Iowa City, raised in Des Moines, IA. He is a graduate of Roosevelt High School and Iowa State University (Integrated Studio Arts). Richardson is a visual artist by training and uses performance poetry as an alternate means of expression and connection. Richardson has been a long-time Say What! Poetry contributor and appeared recently in a charity performance with the Say What! Poets for Culture Inc./Home for My Peeps. He has also appeared in performances: Fresh Breath Poetry “Off Paper,” Lenny’s Poetic Soul Revival and “Entering the College Zone,” presented by the NBCDI.
Mary Swander, Iowa Poet Laureate
Mary Swander is the current Poet Laureate of the State of Iowa. Swander is the author of numerous books of poetry, non-fiction and drama. Her most recent book of poetry is called The Girls on the Roof which she has adapted to the stage with puppeteer Monica Leo from the Eulenspiegel Puppet Theatre.
She has been the recipient of major awards including the Whiting Award and a National Endowment for the Arts Award. Swander is a Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Iowa State University.
Des Moines Social Club
Matthew McIver: Matthew McIver, Artistic/ Education Director
1408 Locust Street
Des Moines, IA
917-405-2877
mwmciver@gmail.com
Matthew McIver is an actor, writer, director and educator. As an actor
he has performed in 22 states and four foreign countries, including a sold-
out run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. In New York he has worked with such companies as atm, trip, and adobe, and is a member of Subjective Theatre Company. Regionally he has performed with American Stage (Florida), Charlotte Repertory Theatre, Wilma Theater, Shenandoah Shakespeare, and BHP productions of Keokuk. He starred in the film Fields of Freedom and has appeared nationally in commercials. Matthew’s work as an actor/educator has included leading workshops in theater and Shakespeare across the country with Shenandoah Shakespeare.
Grinnell Area Arts Council
Jason Arbogast
Laura Sweeney
LAMB Arts Regional Theatre
Jeanne Emmons
Briar Cliff University
3303 Rebecca St.
Sioux City, IA 51104
jeanne.emmons@briarcliff.edu
712.279.1655
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
Sondheim Center for the Performing Arts
Freddy Niagara Fonseca
Fairfield Creates Foundation
Candlelight Reading Series
PO Box 1271
Fairfield, IA 52556
641-472-7634
operafred@lisco.com
www.fairfieldcreatesfoundation.com
http://www.thisenduringgift.com/
Freddy Niagara Fonseca, Renaissance man, poet, dramatic reader, impresario, and creator of THIS ENDURING GIFT has immersed himself in the arts all his life and read tens of thousands of poems in five languages. With the collaboration of gifted readers, musicians, dancers, and actors, he has presented over 50 poetry readings of all styles, eras, and cultures.
He believes that poetry and the whole world will drastically change once a new, spiritual paradigm of consciousness and language emerges. Poetry will be experienced, written, and appreciated in universal terms. He lives in Fairfield, IA. Visit http://www.thisenduringgift.com.
Raven Garland
k_marie1@me.com
Raven Garland is an active performer and teacher of music, poetry and eurythmy. She holds a Bachelor and Master Degree in Music from the University of Massachusetts and an Artist Diploma from the Eurythmy School of Spring Valley New York. Raven is a long time advocate for the arts in everyday life. She has extensive experience performing as a past member of the Eurythmy Spring Valley Threefold Ensemble, a puppeteer for the New England Marionette Opera Theater, pianist, poet and eurythmist. Her aim is to bring poetry to into the lives of everyone she meets in living, artistic and accessible ways.
Rustin Larson
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 Press, 2009) is his latest collection. Crazy Star, his previous, 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.
Information for Students for the State POL Competition, March 5, 2011
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 the parking garage directly across (North) from the building on Grand Avenue.
Students, Parents and Teachers are welcome to call or email Dawn Martinez Oropeza, POL Coordinator directly with any questions regarding Poetry Out Loud!
Student Orientation: State Historical Building Auditorium
- Students need to arrive by 11:00 a.m. for a mandatory orientation.
- Group and individual photos will be taken
- Students will get the opportunity to practice on stage
- The days agenda and rules will be covered
- Students will be released by 12:30 at the latest. There will be a green room set up for personal belongings, snacks, and practice space.
- The orientation is for students only. Parents, teachers and guardians are welcome 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 - Overview of evaluation criteria for audience
- (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. There will be refreshments in the atrium.
Students are welcome 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 Photo Opportunity for Students
A professional photographer will be documenting the student performances. Individual portraits and group shots will be available for the students’ families.
Photographs by Maharry Photography
The 2011 National Finals
The 2011 National Finals will be held in Washington, DC. Semifinal rounds will take place April 27-29. Admission is free and open to the public—National Finals in Washington, DC
Students can view the highlights from the 2010 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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