arts and education poetry out loud
Poetry Can Take You Places - Maybe Even to Washington D.C.
Sheila Sears, Arts Education Manager, Colorado Creative Industries
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Poetry Out Loud is a program that encourages high school students to learn about great poetry through memorization, performance, and competition. Schools are invited to participate in classroom and school-wide contests, advancing to a state competition on March 9, 2010. The state champion will advance to the National Finals on April 26-27, 2010 in Washington, DC.
Kaleena Kovach from William J. Palmer High School in Colorado Springs was selected as the 2009 Colorado Poetry Out Loud champion, Brittany Harden, also from William J. Palmer High School won the competition in 2008, and Passion Lyons from Gateway High School in Aurora was the 2007 Colorado State Champion.
POL Registration Form
There are two ways you can return the competed form to CCI:
1. Save this Adobe Acrobat form (POL-RegistrationForm_Fill-in.pdf) on your computer as a template. When you have filled out the form, re-save the form WITH A NEW NAME, such as
POL-RegistrationForm_MySchoolName.pdf. If you don’t re-name the form, the information will not be saved.
Then, simple attach your completed form to an e-mail to POLinfo@state.co.us . You will recieve confirm by email that the form was received.
2. If you prefer, you can print the form, fill it out by hand and FAX it to 303-892-3848, attn: Sheila Sears. If you prefer to fax it, please call me at 303-892-3852 to confirm it was received.
Free Curriculum Materials
The program offers free, standards-based curriculum materials including print and online poetry anthologies, a teacher‘s guide with sample lesson plans to help instructors teach recitation and performance, a best performances DVD, and an audio CD featuring well-known actors such as James Earl Jones. Program materials are available for download at www.poetryoutloud.org.
Teacher Workshop
There will be a Teacher Workshop on December 5 from 10:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at the Daniels Fund in Cherry Creek; 101 Monroe Street; Denver. There is very limited space for this workshop so please RSVP soon by emailing POLinfo@state.co.us.
Poet Classroom Visits
There will also be opportunities for professional poets to visit classrooms. Be sure to sign up for the Colorado Poetry Out Loud email updates to learn more.
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Prizes
The state champion will receive $200 and an all-expenses-paid trip to Washington, D.C. with a chaperone, to compete for the national championship. The state winner‘s school will receive a $500 stipend for the purchase of poetry books. One runner-up will receive $100, with $200 for his or her school library. Poetry Out Loud will award a total of $50,000 in awards and school stipends at the National Finals, including a $20,000 prize for the Poetry Out Loud National Champion.
Poetry as an Oral Art Form
Poetry Out Loud seeks to foster the next generation of literary readers by capitalizing on the latest trends in poetry - recitation and performance. The program builds on the resurgence of poetry as an oral art form, as seen in the slam poetry movement and the immense popularity of rap music among youth. Through Poetry Out Loud, students can master public speaking skills, build self-confidence, and learn about their literary heritage.
Find out more!
- Visit www.poetryoutloud.org for information, browse poems, see videos and download the teacher’s guide.
- Sign up for email updates about the Colorado Poetry Out Loud program.
- Contact Sheila Sears, Arts Education Manager at POLinfo@state.co.us or 303-892-3852 to enroll your school.
Poetry Out Loud is sponsored by Colorado Creative Industries, National Endowment for the Arts and the Poetry Foundation.
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