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Poetry Out Loud Finals

Finals

0:00 - WELCOME - Elizabeth Acevedo, Host
1:00 - ROLL CALL OF STATE CHAMPIONS
6:04 - OPENING REMARKS - Elizabeth Acevedo, Host
8:39 - OPENING REMARKS AND ANNOUNCEMENT OF POETRY OURSELVES WINNERS - Mary Ann Carter, Senior Deputy Chairman, National Endowment for the Arts
16:54 - REMARKS - Elizabeth Acevedo, Host

ROUND 1
19:39 - Maria Modi Tuya - North Dakota - “Author’s Prayer” by Ilya Kaminsky
22:27 - Vera Escaja-Heiss - Vermont - “Spanglish” by Tato Laviera
24:52 - Xiadi Zhai - Massachusetts - “The World Is Too Much With Us” by William Wordsworth
26:57 - Matias Coss Hernandez - Puerto Rico - “The Conqueror Worm” by Edgar Allan Poe
30:17 - Hope Stratman - Nebraska - “At Last the New Arriving” by Gabrielle Calvocoressi
32:20 - Nicholas Amador - Hawaii - “Snow Day” by Billy Collins
35:08 - Kiara A. Jones - Kentucky - “Passing” by Toi Derricotte
37:01 - Janae Claxton - South Carolina - “The Gaffe” by C.K. Williams
42:37 - Sophia Weinzinger - Arizona - “Hysteria” by Dioniso D. Martinez

46:28 - REMARKS - Stephen Young, Program Director, Poetry Foundation

ROUND 2
48:34 - Maria Modi Tuya - North Dakota - “The Waking” by Theodore Roethke
52:40 - Vera Escaja-Heiss - Vermont - “I Remember, I Remember” by Thomas Hood
56:01 - Xiadi Zhai - Massachusetts - “Degrees of Gray in Philipsburg” by Richard Hugo
1:00:55 - Matias Coss Hernandez - Puerto Rico - “Spanglish” by Tato Laviera
1:04:16 - Hope Stratman - Nebraska - “The Season of Phantasmal Peace” by Derek Walcott
1:08:43 - Nicholas Amador - Hawaii - “Two Guitars” by Victor Hernandez Cruz
1:12:09 - Kiara A. Jones - Kentucky - “The Negro Speaks Rivers” by Langston Hughes
1:14:20 - Janae Claxton - South Carolina - “A Satirical Elegy on the Death of a Late Famous General” by Jonathan Swift
1:18:38 - Sophia Weinzinger - Arizona - “Tarantulas on the Lifebuoy” by Thomas Lux

1:21:32 - AWARDING OF MEDALS - Elizabeth Acevedo, Host
1:27:18 - ANNOUNCEMENT OF THREE FINALISTS - Elizabeth Acevedo, Host

ROUND 3
1:33:20 - Hope Stratman - Nebraska - “To Solitude” by Alice Cary
1:36:17 - Nicholas Amador - Hawaii - “The New Colossus” by Emma Lazarus
1:38:19 - Janae Claxton - South Carolina - “I Go Back to May 1937” by Sharon Olds

1:42:21 - REMARKS - Pam Breaux, CEO, National Assembly of State Arts Agencies
1:44:03 - MUSICAL PERFORMANCE - Kaia Kater

2:00:28 - ANNOUNCEMENT OF POETRY OUT LOUD CHAMPION

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