POETRY OUT LOUD (announcement from Mrs. Healey)

It is time again for POETRY OUT LOUD, the national recitation contest for high school students.  This will be St. Mark's fourth year competing, and last year Windy Vorwick made it to the state semifinals. The national winner will receive a $20,000 scholarship awarded in April 2013 in Washington, D.C. 

This year’s Poetry Out Loud contest at St. Mark’s is planned for December 12, 2012, after school (usually about an hour long).  We need participants, and all grades are eligible.

The rules are simple. Each contestant must memorize two poems chosen from the Poetry Out Loud web anthology <http://poetryoutloud.org/poems-and-performance/>  and recite them in front of three judges and the other contestants. They do not have to be long poems, and the majority of the poems on the site are contemporary.  

All who are interested should see Mrs. Healey in room 366 or in the English office for an application form.