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Duanesburg High School students bring poetry to life
Anny
Miner to move on to regional Poetry Out Loud Competition |
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Communications Specialist Audrey Hendricks
518-895-5350,
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The three finalists in the school-wide Poetry
Out Loud contest are pictured above along with
English teacher and contest facilitator Donna
Prescott. |
Jan. 15, 2008 –
Congratulations to all nine Duanesburg High School students
who engaged an audience full of their peers, school staff
and family members with poetry they memorized and performed
for the school-wide Poetry Out Loud Contest on Wednesday,
Jan. 9.
“Every single recitation was superb—just wonderful,” said
English teacher and contest facilitator Donna Prescott. “I
love this time of year, I love hearing the students recite
poetry.”
Junior Anny Miner was selected as the school-wide winner,
while sophomores Mitch Martin and Steven Boyd placed second
and third, respectively.
Miner presented a moving rendition of Charlotte Smith’s “Oh,
Hope! thou soother sweet of human woes” and Tony Hoagland’s
“Beauty.”
“It gave me chills,” said board member and judge Bridget
Holmes about Miner’s rendition of “Beauty.”
When she was a freshman, Miner was selected as a classroom
winner, but declined moving forward to the school-wide
competition at that time.
“She just blew me away,” recalled Prescott about Miner’s
recitation of Ann Taylor’s “The Star,” just two years ago.
The Duanesburg finalists were selected by the judges,
Holmes, music teacher Mira Ordon and local poet Judy Prest,
based on the complexity of the poems chosen and the ease and
naturalness in reciting.
Martin recited “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost and
“Jabberwocky” by Lewis Carroll, while Boyd recited “Harlem”
by Langston Hughes and “We Real Cool” by Gwendolyn Brooks.
This is the third year that Duanesburg students have
participated in the national poetry contest, which begins at
the classroom level. There students select two poems to
memorize and recite from the extensive Poetry Out Loud
anthology and Web site. Students compete by classrooms and
then the classroom winners move on to the school-wide
competition.
This year, Miner must participate in a regional competition at the
Arts Center of the Capital Region in Troy on Tuesday, Feb.
12 at 6 p.m. in order to move on to the state competition.
Three capital region finalists will be selected for the
state competition, scheduled for Thursday, March 13 at 6
p.m. at the New
York State Museum in Albany. The state champion will participate in the National
Finals on April 29 in Washington, DC where a total of
$50,000 in scholarships and school stipends will be awarded.
Presented in partnership with New York State Art Alliance,
the National Endowment for the Arts and the Poetry
Foundation, the National Poetry Out Loud Contest encourages
high school students to learn about poetry through
memorization, performance and competition. It helps students
master public speaking skills, build self-confidence and
learn about their literary heritage.
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