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Poetry Out Loud 2010
 We invite you to attend one of the many high school competitions from the 32 New Hampshire high schools participating in the 2010 New Hampshire Poetry Out Loud recitation contest. Scroll down to view a list of those dates and locations.
The goal of the competition and its accompanying curriculum is to encourage the nation's youth to learn about great poetry through memorization and performance. This program helps students master public speaking skills, build self-confidence, and learn about their literary heritage. Poetry Out Loud builds on the current resurgence of the spoken word as an art form, inviting the dynamic aspects of slam poetry, spoken word, and theater into the classroom. Each high school champion and alternate champion will receive renewable scholarship awards of $15,000 annually from New England College and up to $11,000 from Southern New Hampshire University.
The high school champions will then compete at one of three regional semi-final competitions to be held the first week of March, 2010. The finalists from these regional events will square off at the state final held at Keene State College on March 20, 2010.
The winner of the state competition will receive $200 and an all-expenses paid trip (one chaperone included) to the national competition in Washington, D.C., in late April, 2010. Additionally his/her school will receive $500 for the purchase of poetry books. The individual state runner-up will receive $100 with an additional $200 award to his/her school for poetry books.
Though high school registration is now closed, this year the Keene Public Library will conduct its own open POL program for high school home schoolers and high school students whose high schools are not participating this year. New Hampshire students within in transportation distance wishing to participate in that program should contact Youth Librarian Gail Zachariah at the Keene Public Library, (603) 352-0157, for details.
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Competition Date |
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| Belmont High School |
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| Bishop Brady High School |
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| Bow High School |
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| Cocheco Arts & Technology Academy |
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| Coe Brown Northwood Academy |
1/20/10 |
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7 p.m. |
| Concord High School |
12/9/09 |
12/11/09 |
9:30 a.m. |
| Derryfield School |
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| Exeter High School |
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| Goffstown High School |
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| Good Shepherd School |
1/28/10 |
2/4/10 |
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| Holderness School |
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| Home School Group (Keene Public Library) |
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| Hopkinton Middle High School |
2/10/10 |
2/11/10 |
6 p.m. |
| John Stark Regional High School |
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| Kingswood Regional High School |
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| Lebanon High School |
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| LinWood Public School |
11/10/09 |
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5 p.m. |
| Merrimack High School |
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| Milford High School |
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| Newfound Regional High School |
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| Newmarket High School |
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| Oyster River High School |
1/12/10 |
1/13/10 |
6 p.m. |
| Parker Academy |
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| Pembroke Academy |
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| Pittsfield Middle High School |
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| Plymouth Regional High School |
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| Portsmouth High School |
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| Salem High School |
1/7/10 |
1/13/10 |
6:30 p.m. |
| Spaulding High School |
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| Timberlane Regional High School |
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| Windham High School |
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| Winnacunnet High School |
2/11/10 |
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6:30 p.m. |
Teachers, students, and poetry lovers are invited to visit The Poetry Foundations Poetry Learning Lab at www.poetryfoundation.org/learninglab for more ideas on how to approach poetry. For more information contact Rodger Martin, N.H. POL coordinator, at Rodgerwriter@myfairpoint.net or 603-525-4715; or Catherine O'Brian, Arts in Education Coordinator, N.H. State Council on the Arts, at 603-271-0795 or Catherine.R.OBrian@dcr.nh.gov.
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updated:
November 17, 2009
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