Youssef Biaz, 2011 Poetry Out Loud Champion
Who was your state's champion?
“Inscribe the poem on yourself” --Audio interview on the pleasures of memorization
IL Champ Morgan Williams reads “What Work Is” by new Poet Laureate Philip Levine
2011 VT Champ Narrates Nationally-Shown NASA Movie
Born in Boston, Ralph Waldo Emerson followed in his father’s footsteps when he became a Unitarian minister. However, after his young wife died of tuberculosis in 1831, he found his faith shaken. The next year he traveled Europe where he formed
Welcome to Poetry Out Loud: National Recitation Contest. Created by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Poetry Foundation, Poetry Out Loud is administered in partnership with the State Arts Agencies of all 50 states, the District of Columbia, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rico.
