SCOE: Poetry Out Loud 2016

Poetry Out Loud 2016

The Sacramento County Poetry Out Loud competition encourages high school students to learn about great poetry through memorization, performance, and competition. The program provides students with the opportunity to perform poetry in English classes. Modeled like the National Spelling Bee, the Poetry Out Loud program began in local high school classrooms, with winners advancing to school-wide, then regional competition. Schools countrywide are participating in regional competitions.

00:00:11 – Opening Remarks by David Gordon, Sacramento County Superintendent of schools and Jeff Knorr, Poet Laureate of Sacramento City and County.

Round 1
00:13:41 – Angel Ford from Heritage Peak Charter
“The animals in that country” by Margaret Atwood
00:15:34 – Bruce Ruiz from Luther Burbank High School
“Since There is No Escape” by Sara Teasdale
00:17:24 – Chigozie Maduchukwu from Pleasant Grove High School
“Filling Station” by Elizabeth Bishop
00:20:49 – DeAna Soto from Inderkum High School
“Bleeding Heart” by Carmen Giménez Smith
00:23:42 – Ealaisa Farschman from Cornerstone Christian School
“Ode” by Arthur O’Shaughnessy
00:25:30 – Emily Rassikhin from Futures High School
“Holy Sonnets: Batter my heart. three person’d God” by John Donne
00:27:19 – Hannah Oldfield from Rio Americano High School
“Memory As a Hearing Aid” by Tony Hoagland
00:29:47 – Janelle Reyes from Capital Christian High School
“Domestic Situation” by Ernest Hilbert
00:31:14 – Jeffrey Revello from Elk Grove High School
“Quite Frankly” by Mark Halliday
00:33:43 – Kaitlyn Kui from John F. Kennedy High School
“Blackberrying” by Sylvia Plath
00:37:10 – Natalie Berry from Rio Linda High School
“Bleeding Heart” by Carmen Giménez Smith
00:39:37 – Paul Yegorov from Center High School
“Requests for Toy Piano” by Tony Hoagland
00:42:31 – Sierra DeBlonk from Natomas Charter School
“For the young who want to” by Marge Piercy
00:44:30 – Stephan Alfaro from Del Campo High School
“What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why” by Edna St. Vincent Millay

Round 2
00:47:20 – Stephan Alfaro from Del Campo High School
“Serenade” by Mary Weston Fordham
00:48:51 – Natalie Berry from Rio Linda High School
“Four Glimpses of Night” by Frank Marshall Davis
00:50:29 – Sierra DeBlonk from Natomas Charter School
“Invictus” by William Ernest Henley
00:52:02 – Ealaisa Farschman from Cornerstone Christian School
“To My Dear and Loving Husband” by Anne Bradstreet
00:53:31 – Angel Ford from Heritage Peak Charter
“Backdrop addresses cowboy” by Margaret Atwood
00:55:50 – Kaitlyn Kui from John F. Kennedy High School
“After working sixty hours again for what reason” by Bob Hicok
00:58:38 – Chigozie Maduchukwu from Pleasant Grove High School
“Let the Light Enter” by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
01:01:35 – Hannah Oldfield from Rio Americano High School
“The Golden Shovel” by Terrence Hayes
01:05:37 – Emily Rassikhin from Futures High School
“Love’s Philosphy” by Percy Bysshe Shelley
01:06:57 – Jeffrey Revello from Elk Grove High School
“The Seekers of Lice” by Arthur Rimbaud
01:09:28 – Janelle Reyes from Capital Christian High School
“Echo” by Christina Rosetti
01:10:58 – Bruce Ruiz from Luther Burbank High School
“Snow Day” by Billy Collins
01:13:44 – DeAna Soto from Inderkum High School
“Love’s Philosophy” by Percy Bysshe Shelley
01:15:09 – Paul Yegorov from Center High School
“Life Cycle of Common Man” by Howard Nemerov
01:19:04 – Awards Ceremony
01:24:44 – Interview with the Winner