Thanks to the many hands who helped with the regional Poetry Out Loud contest this weekend. Nessa and I had lots of fun. (Nessa's criteria may have been a little soft, but she had the final winner pegged even before the initial three-way tie.) The contestants have definitely gotten stronger each year.
One of the three-way winners (before elimination) had several people laughing out loud with his recitation of Progressive Health by Carl Dennis. I thought that his other performance, Beat! Beat! Drums! by Walt Whitman, was the strongest of the first two rounds. The girl who won did The Death of Allegory by Billy Collins as one of her two poems. Stephen Rayner did that last year at our school’s poetry festival, and it was great to hear it again. Gwen delivered a beautiful (but too poised and polished) version of Hush by David St. John. Matthew Fox placed second with a commanding delivery of The Minefield by Diane Thiel.
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