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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Date: November 28, 2007 Contact: Rodger Martin, New Hampshire POL Director: rodgerwriter@verizon.net, 525-4715
Catherine O’Brian, New Hampshire State Council on the Arts, Arts in Education Coordinator:
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Fifteen New Hampshire High Schools will Participate in 2008 Poetry Out Loud Competition
Concord, NH…………Fifteen New Hampshire high schools will participate in the 2008 New Hampshire Poetry Out Loud Competition (National Recitation Project) sponsored by the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and the Poetry Foundation.
By encouraging high school students to memorize and perform great poems, Poetry Out Loud invites the dynamic aspects of slam poetry, spoken word, and theater into the English class. This exciting new program, which began in 2005, helps students master public speaking skills, build self-confidence, and learn about their literary heritage.
The program consists of a three-week curriculum (provided by the National Endowment for the Arts) in which student develop memorization skills and a deeper understanding of classic poetry. Each high school holds a competition in classrooms to select winners interested in participating in a school-wide competition. Each participating high school then selects a winner to compete at a regional and state final competition. The state regional and finals competition will take place at Keene State College in the Arts Center at Brickyard Pond on March 22, 2008. (Snow date is March 29, 2008).
The winner of the state competition will receive $200 and an all expenses paid trip to the national competition in Washington, DC, in April 2008. Additionally, the winner's school will receive $500 to purchase poetry books. The individual state runner-up will receive $100 with an additional $200 award to his/her school for poetry books.
The participating NH high schools include the following:
- Bow High School
- Cocheco Arts & Technology Academy
- Concord High School
- Dover High School
- Exeter High School
- Hopkinton High School
- John Stark Regional High School
- Newmarket High School
- Oyster River High School
- Pembroke Academy
- Pittsfield Middle High School
- Plymouth Regional High School
- Salem High School
- Timberlane Regional High School
- Winnacunnet High School
NH partners for Poetry Out Loud include the NH Writers' Project, the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation, Keene State College, the Arts Alliance of Northern NH, The Poetry Society of NH, the Frost Place in Franconia and Toadstool Bookstores of Peterborough and Milford. For updates on NH high school competition dates please check the website of the NH State Council on the Arts: www.nh.gov/nharts.
For more information on the 2008 Poetry out Loud program in NH, contact Rodger Martin, Project Director at 603-525-4715, email: Rodgerwriter@verizon.net; or Catherine O'Brian, Arts in Education Coordinator, NH State Council on the Arts, 603-271-0795, or Catherine.R.O'Brian@dcr.nh.gov.
More details about the program plus many valuable resources are available at the national Poetry Out Loud website: http://www.poetryoutloud.org.
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