Friday, October 1, 2010

Your Poetry Selection

Check out Poetry Out Loud website and watch the videos of excellent examples of poetry recitation:

http://www.poetryoutloud.org/poems/video_bestpractices.html

Begin looking through their list of eligible poems for the contest and choose a few possibles for YOUR poetry recital!

Post your choices by Thursday 3pm
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38 comments:

  1. Jeannie!10/2/10, 11:41 PM

    In descending order of preference:

    Snowflake
    By William Baer

    Forgetfulness
    by Billy Collins
    (Which is one of the videos on the main page)

    Silence
    By Thomas Hood

    - Jeannie Matthews :^D

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  2. Cassie Rall10/3/10, 12:20 AM

    Numbers By Mary Cornish
    Poem with One Fact By Donald Hall
    One Art By Elizabeth Bishop
    When You Are Old By William Butler Yeats

    Cassie Rall

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  3. By the moon10/3/10, 6:41 PM

    - Trees by Joyce Kilmer
    - Forgetfulness by Billy Collins
    - The Tyger by William Blake
    - You Charm'd Me Not With That Fair Face by John Dryden


    Piper Miller

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  4. Dakota Edelstein10/4/10, 3:03 AM

    -Bright Star by John Keats
    - “HOPE” is the thing with feathers by Emily Dickinson
    - The Tyger by William Blake


    ----Dakota Edelstein

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  5. jalina10/4/10, 1:28 PM

    " Who Understands me but me" - Jimmy Santiago Baca
    " A song in the front yard" - Gwendolyn Brooks
    " Time Does not bring relief- you all have lied"- Edna St.Vincent Millay

    Jalina Pittman Blk. 2

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  6. Nika10/4/10, 6:50 PM

    A Dream Within a Dream by Edgar Allen Poe

    "Hope" is the thing with feathers by Emily Dickinson

    A Boat beneath a sunny sky by Lewis Carroll

    Nika Hedrick
    Block 4

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  7. holly_elizabeth10/4/10, 6:58 PM

    -A Boat beneath a Sunny Sky by Lewis Carroll
    -I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud by William Wordsworth
    -[i carry your heart with me(i carry it in] by E.E. Cummings

    Holly Denton
    Block 2

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  8. Unknown10/4/10, 7:14 PM

    Saturday's Child by Countee Cullen

    Teaching English from an Old Composition Book By Gary Soto

    Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost

    Sylvia Percovich
    Block IV

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  9. Unknown10/4/10, 7:35 PM

    -The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost
    -Sugar Dada by J. Allyn Rosser
    -Discrimination by Kenneth Rexroth (wow)
    -Ways of Talking by Ha Jin

    Do we have to recite a poem?

    Amy Marshall
    Block 2

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  10. Anonymous10/4/10, 10:46 PM

    *The Cities Inside us ~ Alberto Rios
    *Love Lives Beyond the Tomb ~ Jhon Clare
    *On the Existence of the Soul ~ Pattiann Rogers
    *Poor Angels ~ Edward Hirsch

    William Arthur Weeks

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  11. Unknown10/4/10, 10:50 PM

    1. Sonnet XVIII; Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day? By: Shakespeare
    2. A Dream Within A Dream by Edgar Allan Poe
    3. Fire and Ice Robert Frost
    4. [I Carry your Heart With ME (I Carry It in) by E.E. Cummings
    5. Nude Descending a Staircase by X J Kennedy

    Sue-Ann Shaw
    Block # 4

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  12. eboniedare10/4/10, 11:24 PM

    1.Do Not! By Stevie smith
    2. Discrimination By Kenneth Rexroth
    3. Flirtation by Rita Dove
    4. I'm A Fool to Love You by Cornelius Eady
    5. Oh, Hope! Thou Soother of Sweet Human Woes by Charlotte Smith

    Ebonie Wells
    Block II

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  13. Ginette Norvelus10/5/10, 4:41 PM

    Self-Portrait By Robert Creeley

    The Vacuum By Howard Nemerov

    You Charm'd me not with that fair face By John Dryden

    The World By Robert Creeley


    Ginette Norvelus
    Block #2

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  14. Unknown10/5/10, 7:29 PM

    Romance By Claude McKay

    To Fashion By Elizabeth Moody

    Scary Movies By Kim Addonizio

    Insomnia By Dana Gioia

    - Shanika F. (4th block)

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  15. Anonymous10/5/10, 8:11 PM

    1. "Echo" by Daryl Hine
    2. "Fire and Ice" by Robert Frost
    3. "To" - By Sarah Helen Whitman
    4. "Solitude" By Ella Wheeler Wilcox

    Francheska Periche
    Block 2

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  16. Unknown10/5/10, 9:06 PM

    1. "To My Dear and Loving Husband" by Anne Bradstreet
    2. "When You Are Old" by William Butler Yeats
    3. "Let It Be Forgotten" by Sara Teasdale
    4. "Fairy Tail Logic" by A.E. Stallings
    5. "In Praise Of My Bed" by Meredith Holmes

    Danielle Malcolm
    Block 4

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  17. Unknown10/5/10, 9:58 PM

    1. Do Not! by Stevie Smith
    2. A Dream Within a Dream by Edgar Allan Poe
    3. Broken Promises by David Kirby
    4. History Lesson by Natasha Trethewey

    ~Katherine Carrazana
    block 2

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  18. Anonymous10/5/10, 10:26 PM

    a song in the front yard - Gwendolyn Grooks
    Black boys play the classics - Toi Derricotte
    DiscriminaTION - KENNETH REXROTH
    I Am Learning to Abandon the World - Linda Pastan

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  19. Unknown10/5/10, 10:35 PM

    A Psalm of Life -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    Fairy-Tale Logic -- A.E. Stallings
    Famous -- Naomi Shihab Nye

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  20. JonellCJ10/6/10, 5:50 PM

    Iam Learning to Abandon the World- Lind Pastan
    A Fixed Idea- Amy Lowell
    "Alone"- Edger Allan Poe
    Broken Promises- David Kirby

    Jonell Joseph
    Block 2

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  21. Anonymous10/6/10, 6:06 PM

    "Sign"- George Starbuck
    "Women"- Louise Bogan
    "Windows"- Linda Bierds

    no particular order.

    Isaac Amor Block 2

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  22. Cheyenne10/6/10, 6:57 PM

    1) "[I carry your heart with me(I carry it in]" by E.E. Cummings
    2) "A Red, Red Rose" by Robert Burns
    3) "Famous" by Naomi Shihab Nye

    Cheyenne Hall
    Block 4

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  23. Nessa Awesomeness10/6/10, 7:25 PM

    In order or preference:

    "Blow Blow Thou Winter Wind" - Shakespeare
    "A Boat Beneath a Sunny Sky" - Carroll
    "Alone" - Poe
    "Fire and Ice" - Frost

    Vanessa Whitney
    Block 2

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  24. Anonymous10/6/10, 8:16 PM

    -Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
    (Robert Frost)

    -Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory/Battle Hymn of the Republic (Julia Ward Howe)

    -Immortal Sails
    (Alfred Noyes)

    EVAN JACKSON
    BLOCK TWO

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  25. Unknown10/6/10, 8:43 PM

    “I felt a Funeral in my Brain” by Emily Dickinson

    “The Film” by Kate Northrop

    “I Am Offering this Poem” by Jimmy Santiago Baca

    “Hap” by Thomas Hardy


    Cinthya Castro
    Block 2

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  26. Cody10/6/10, 9:03 PM

    A Boat beneath a Sunny Sky By Lewis Carroll
    Cartoon Physics, part 1 By Nick Flynn
    Fairy-tale Logic By A.E. Stallings
    Fishing By A.E. Stallings
    In Praise of My Bed By Meredith Holmes
    Solitude By Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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  27. Tatiana.Becker10/6/10, 10:22 PM

    I'd be happy to do any of these (but they are in preferential order):
    -"A Dream Within A Dream" by Edgar Allan Poe
    -"Domestic Violence" by Eavan Boland
    -"It Was Not Death, For I Stood Up" by Emily Dickinson

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  28. Karlens10/6/10, 10:52 PM

    "Alone" by Edgar Allan Poe
    "Broken Promises" by David Kirby
    "Early Affection" by George Moses Horton
    "I Am Learning To Abandon the World" By Linda Pastan

    Karlens Direny
    Block 4

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  29. Eric Marshall10/6/10, 10:56 PM

    "A Dream Within a Dream" by Edgar Allen Poe
    "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost
    "The White City" by Claude McKay
    "Thoughts in a Zoo" by Countee Cullen

    Eric Marshall, Block 2

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  30. Unknown10/6/10, 11:23 PM

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  31. Unknown10/6/10, 11:24 PM

    Bright Star, Would I Were Steadfast As Thou Art by John Keats
    The Tyger by William Blake
    A Virginal by Ezra Pound
    When You Are Old by William Butler Yeats

    Maria Savarese Block 4

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  32. Unknown10/6/10, 11:48 PM

    "The Second Coming" by William Butler Yeats
    "Past-Lives Therapy" by Charles Simic
    "Self Inquiry Before the Job Interview" Gary Soto
    "Self Portrait" Chase Twichell
    "Self Portrait" Robert Cheeley

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  33. Alex Upp10/7/10, 9:11 AM

    "The Arrow and the Song" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

    "The Paradox" by Paul Laurence Dunbar
    "Walking from Sleep" by Robert Bly
    "Ode on Solidtude" by Alexander Pope

    Alex Upp
    Block 4

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  34. alikay10/7/10, 10:59 AM

    "on Quiting" by Edgar Albert Guest
    "Solitude" by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
    "It couldnt be done" by Edgar Albert Guest

    -Alicia Weeks
    Block 2

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  35. Unknown10/7/10, 2:16 PM

    In no particular order:
    The Road Not taken By Robert Frost,
    Fire and Ice By Robert Frost,
    Forgetfullness By Billy Collins

    Brandon Richards
    Block 2

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  36. Bulldog192810/7/10, 3:29 PM

    "Fire and Ice" Robert Frost
    "Dream Within a Dream" Edgar Allen Poe
    "The Cross of Snow" Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    "Holy Sonnets: Death Be Not Proud" John Donne
    "Song of the Powers" David Mason

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  37. Unknown10/7/10, 5:56 PM

    "The Second Coming" By William Butler Yeats
    "Gitanjali 35" By Rabindranath Tagore
    "Late Echo" By John Ashbery
    "The Snow Man" By Wallace Stevens
    "Ways of Talking" By Ha Jin

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  38. James10/7/10, 10:07 PM

    "Fairy-tale Logic" By A.E. Stallings
    "I, Too" By Langston Hughes
    "Self-Portrait" By Robert Creeley
    "To —" By Sarah Helen Whitman
    "Pride" By Yusef Komunyakaa

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