ArtsErie Announces Poetry Out Loud Regional Champion

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ArtsErie Announces Poetry Out Loud Regional Champion

posted on: Monday, March 01, 2010

Winner to Compete in State Finals on March 15

ERIE, PA — ArtsErie announces that Katelyn Clarahan, a home-schooled high school freshman from Franklin, Pa., has been selected as the winner of the regional finals of the Poetry Out Loud: National Recitation Contest. Poetry Out Loud is a national arts education program, created by the National Endowment for the Arts and The Poetry Foundation, which encourages the study of poetry by offering educational materials and a dynamic recitation competition to high schools across the country.

ArtsErie and the PA Council on the Arts presented the 2010 regional competition, held Saturday, February 20, 2010 at Allegheny College in Meadville. This year, four students participated in the regional finals. In addition to Clarahan, the following students competed: Lucy Crozier, junior, Meadville High School, Meadville; Rachel Golden, sophomore, Mercyhurst Preparatory School, Erie; and Nate Repasz, senior, NW PA Collegiate Academy, Erie.

Clarahan is the daughter of Robert and Terri Clarahan, who is also her teacher, and a member of the Western PA Christian Orators homeschool speech club, taught by Gaye Welton. She was awarded an all-expense-paid trip to the Pennsylvania state finals for Poetry Out Loud, to be held on Monday, March 15, 2010 at the Governor’s Residence in Harrisburg. There, she will be among 13 students from across the state vying for the opportunity to compete at the national finals, to be held in April 2010 in Washington, D.C., where Poetry Out Loud will award $50,000 in scholarships and school prizes.

Contestants in Poetry Out Loud memorize and recite works they select from an anthology of more than 500 classic and contemporary poems. Students then advance to the National Finals through competitions at the classroom, school, regional and state levels. The judges for the 2010 regional competition were ArtsErie Poetry Out Loud coordinator Lora Zill; as well as Donna Baker; Robyn Crago; Jan Hyatt; and Mary Morris.

The 2009-10 academic year marks ArtsErie's fifth year as regional host for area high schools. High Schools in Erie, Crawford, Warren, Mercer, Lawrence, Venango, Forest, McKean, Potter, Elk and Cameron were eligible to compete as part of ArtsErie's region.

To receive information about participating in next year’s competition, contact Holly Nowak, ArtsErie’s Arts in Education Program Manager, at (814) 452-3427. Additional information about Poetry Out Loud is available online at www.poetryoutloud.org.

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Vitoria commented on 20-Sep-2012 02:28 PM

Hi RachaelIt's fine to send less. We like to have a selection of poems for a few rseaons. Most obviously, it gives us more work to choose from – often we'll like a poet's style but not the content of one particular poem, so having a selection allows us
to see a poet's style in a few different contexts. We also like to print a short set of poems rather than a single poem where we can. It gives each poem a little more space to breathe, giving readers a chance to get into the poet's world a little. Like music,
where you can often get a better grasp of a song when it sits in an EP rather than just being a single download somewhere, we really enjoy dedicating a nice chunk of space to a poet.Hand delivery is fine.All the best,Mike

Dannis commented on 20-Sep-2012 02:28 PM

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Pauline commented on 20-Sep-2012 02:29 PM

(Paperback) Helene's book is comprehensive and flleid with tips for beginning and experienced poets. She walks the writer through all the steps necessary to get a poem published and provides lots of great information and tips along the way. It's the perfect
book for anyone interested in publishing their poetry.

Yoshimitsu commented on 19-Oct-2012 04:16 PM

(Paperback) This collection coevrs a lot that new and established poets will find useful.It saves you many hours of needless research spend more time writing poetry; and then take the advice on publishing it.

Sandra commented on 19-Oct-2012 04:17 PM

(Paperback) Following the MFA trend that hits England, the States and Asia, there have been lots of books on creative wrtniig, whether it's on fiction, non-fiction or poetry. However, among all, only a few stand out and this is not total stranger to massive number of MFA graduates. Everybody writes but there's just not enough readers. Fred Sedgwick's How to Write Poetry is a disappointment. The author organizes the book with the ideas of how to write poems and some practical prompts to encourage readers to try out his theories. This may work for children or beginning writers, but it is far from what people who want to embark onto the next stage in the creative world would want. The book is full of basic ideas but fail to give advice and inspire readers on how to treat their wrtniig as a continuous process. There's no chapter on how to revise a draft and what to revise. Examples include in this book mainly come from the writer and children! Come on, it's published by Continuum, and readers expect something more hardcore than how to teach young children to write creatively.

Hitesh commented on 19-Oct-2012 04:17 PM

Yes to both of yoru questions. Start with where you live. I don't know what corunty you are in, or what city, but go to your local newspaper first and ask if they publish poetry. Then go to your local library, and ask about magazines that publish poetry. But DO NOT get involved with people who want you to pay them to publish your poetry. That's a scam.

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