Poetry Out Loud

Washington-Liberty hosted our 20th annual Poetry Out Loud competition!

Poetry Out Loud (POL) is a “national arts education program that encourages the study of great poetry by offering free educational materials and a dynamic recitation competition for high school students across the country.” W-L is a proud pilot-er of the original POL program, which now reaches more than 17,000 schools and organizations in all 50 states, American Samoa, District of Columbia, Guam, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Twelve students, three from each grade level, showed their talent, performing poems to an audience in the W-L library on Wednesday evening. There was a dynamic range of poems selected, from renowned works like those of William Wordsworth and Claude McKay, to modern masterpieces from poets such as Jack Collom. We would like to extend our gratitude and congratulations to all of the impressive participants: Gus Char, McKenna Kee, Kyra Moorgas, Sarah Freeman, Kimberlin Linares Chacon, Tomás Moran-Uriona, Pippin Blackwell-Curtis, Siobhan Jacobs, Gabriela Netwall, Allison Contreras, Nicholas Coughlin, and Anna Mohanty. We would also like to extend a special thank you to: all of the staff and community volunteers that made this event possible; student volunteers from the National English Honor Society who helped things run smoothly; families and friends that came to support the participants. Final congratulations to Sarah Freeman, our first-place winner of Poetry Out Loud, who will be representing W-L as she moves forward in the competition!