WEBVTT 00:00.433 --> 00:01.101 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% Hi, everyone. 00:01.101 --> 00:02.335 align:left position:17.5% line:5% size:72.5% My name is David Toland, 00:02.335 --> 00:04.070 align:left position:17.5% line:5% size:72.5% and I'm honored to serve as Governor Laura Kelly's 00:04.070 --> 00:06.539 align:left position:25% line:5% size:65% lieutenant governor for the great state of Kansas. 00:07.107 --> 00:08.942 align:left position:35% line:83% size:55% The program you're about to watch showcases 00:08.942 --> 00:11.111 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% some of our state's most talented young people 00:11.311 --> 00:12.512 align:left position:17.5% line:89% size:72.5% performing at this year's 00:12.512 --> 00:15.248 align:left position:35% line:83% size:55% Poetry Out Loud State Finals in Topeka. 00:16.016 --> 00:18.485 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5% The statewide competition started at the local level 00:18.752 --> 00:20.787 align:left position:32.5% line:83% size:57.5% in classrooms and schools across Kansas. 00:21.254 --> 00:22.622 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% Each of the students you're about to see 00:22.622 --> 00:24.391 align:left position:32.5% line:83% size:57.5% then competed at the regional level 00:24.391 --> 00:26.559 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% before advancing to this year's state finals. 00:27.327 --> 00:30.096 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% Engagement in the creative arts like these poetry readings, 00:30.330 --> 00:32.866 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% provides so much value to Kansas students. 00:33.266 --> 00:35.101 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% It helps build self-confidence 00:35.101 --> 00:37.771 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% while spotlighting the next generation of thinkers, 00:38.071 --> 00:41.408 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% artists, communicators and leaders in our communities. 00:42.142 --> 00:44.711 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% We're excited to share this outstanding program with you, 00:45.078 --> 00:47.714 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% and we're proud that the Kansas Creative Arts Industries 00:47.714 --> 00:50.717 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5% Commission has partnered once again with Poetry Out Loud 00:50.717 --> 00:52.986 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% to support a variety of arts and cultural 00:52.986 --> 00:55.155 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% development programs throughout the Sunflower State. 00:55.688 --> 00:57.123 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% So to get the program started, it's 00:57.123 --> 00:59.125 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% now my pleasure to introduce our host, 00:59.125 --> 01:01.327 align:left position:35% line:83% size:55% Kansas Poet Laureate Traci Brimhal. 01:01.728 --> 01:04.864 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% We hope you enjoy Poetry Out Loud. 01:40.266 --> 01:43.403 align:left position:15% line:5% size:75% Welcome to the 2023 Kansas Poetry Out Loud Recitation 01:43.403 --> 01:45.205 align:left position:25% line:5% size:65% Recitation Contest. 01:45.205 --> 01:48.174 align:left position:12.5% line:5% size:77.5% I am your host, Traci Brimhal the current poet 01:48.174 --> 01:50.043 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% laureate of the State of Kansas, 01:50.043 --> 01:52.412 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% and I am so grateful that we are able to gather 01:52.412 --> 01:54.147 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% in the name of poetry. 01:54.147 --> 01:56.850 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% Speaking of gratitude, I want to take this moment 01:56.850 --> 01:58.384 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% and thank our sponsors, 01:58.384 --> 02:00.920 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% the Kansas Creative Arts Industries Commission, 02:01.187 --> 02:04.557 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% the Poetry Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. 02:04.791 --> 02:06.993 align:left position:32.5% line:83% size:57.5% Without them, none of this would be possible. 02:07.994 --> 02:10.864 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% Pablo Neruda said "“On our earth before 02:10.864 --> 02:14.000 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% writing was invented, before the printing press was invented, 02:14.334 --> 02:16.536 align:left position:25% line:89% size:65% poetry flourished. 02:16.536 --> 02:19.506 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% And that is why we know poetry is like bread, 02:19.839 --> 02:21.674 align:left position:15% line:89% size:75% It should be shared by all 02:21.674 --> 02:24.043 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% By all our vast, incredible, 02:24.043 --> 02:26.579 align:left position:32.5% line:83% size:57.5% extraordinary family of humanity"”. 02:27.347 --> 02:30.283 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% It is in that spirit of poetry as nourishment, 02:30.517 --> 02:33.853 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5% and that poetry is spoken that gathers us here today. 02:34.754 --> 02:36.923 align:left position:35% line:83% size:55% Poetry Out Loud is a national arts 02:36.923 --> 02:38.892 align:left position:27.5% line:83% size:62.5% education program that encourages 02:38.892 --> 02:39.859 align:left position:25% line:89% size:65% the nation's youth 02:39.859 --> 02:41.594 align:left position:15% line:89% size:75% to learn about great poetry 02:41.594 --> 02:43.997 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% through memorization and performance. 02:43.997 --> 02:47.734 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% Reciting great poetry connects us to an ageless art form, 02:48.034 --> 02:50.403 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% to the timelessness of great poets, 02:50.670 --> 02:53.673 align:left position:27.5% line:83% size:62.5% to abstract ideas and higher critical thinking, 02:54.040 --> 02:57.143 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5% and ultimately to deeper life experiences. 02:57.944 --> 03:00.980 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% Here to explain how the event unfolded across the state 03:00.980 --> 03:03.082 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% this year is Kate VanSteenhuyse 03:03.316 --> 03:06.085 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% Director of Kansas Creative Arts Industries Commission 03:06.386 --> 03:09.722 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5% and State Poetry OutLoud Coordinator Cheryl Germann. 03:11.090 --> 03:13.793 align:left position:10% line:5% size:80% In 2006, the National Endowment for the Arts 03:13.793 --> 03:15.662 align:left position:17.5% line:5% size:72.5% and the Poetry Foundation partnered 03:15.662 --> 03:18.198 align:left position:30% line:5% size:60% with State arts agencies across the country to 03:18.198 --> 03:18.798 align:left position:35% line:89% size:55% inaugurate 03:19.365 --> 03:21.734 align:left position:27.5% line:83% size:62.5% Poetry Out Loud, a national recitation contest. 03:22.135 --> 03:23.469 align:left position:35% line:83% size:55% The Kansas Creative Arts Industries 03:23.469 --> 03:25.371 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% Commission is proud to provide Poetry Out 03:25.371 --> 03:27.640 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% Loud program to high school students statewide 03:27.974 --> 03:31.377 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5% and is excited to partner with KTWU to bring poetry 03:31.377 --> 03:35.181 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% into living rooms across Kansas and celebrate the long road and 03:35.181 --> 03:36.683 align:left position:37.5% line:83% size:52.5% hard work these students took to. 03:36.683 --> 03:37.984 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% Get here today. 03:38.518 --> 03:40.386 align:left position:35% line:5% size:55% Poetry Out Loud begins with teachers 03:40.386 --> 03:43.256 align:left position:15% line:5% size:75% and students in classrooms and schools across the state. 03:43.890 --> 03:46.893 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% Each school is able to send one representative to their area's 03:46.893 --> 03:48.428 align:left position:22.5% line:89% size:67.5% regional competition. 03:48.428 --> 03:50.263 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5% The number of competitors at each of the four 03:50.263 --> 03:51.831 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% regional competitions determines 03:51.831 --> 03:53.900 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% how many advance to today's state finals. 03:54.500 --> 03:57.937 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% And today, one Kansas student will become the Kansas Poetry 03:57.937 --> 04:00.873 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% Out Loud Champion and advance to the National Finals. 04:01.708 --> 04:02.575 align:left position:25% line:89% size:65% Thank you to Kansas 04:02.875 --> 04:05.612 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% Regional Coordinators Stacy Chesnut, Cynthia Roth, 04:05.878 --> 04:08.848 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% Kayla Pruitt and CodI Fenwick for your hard work 04:08.848 --> 04:11.217 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5% in bringing this program to all parts of the state. 04:12.051 --> 04:12.552 align:left position:35% line:89% size:55% It is now 04:13.386 --> 04:15.822 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% my pleasure to introduce our panel of distinguished judges. 04:16.322 --> 04:18.458 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% Judges, Please stand when I call your name, 04:19.425 --> 04:21.160 align:left position:12.5% line:5% size:77.5% a seventh generation Kansan. 04:21.160 --> 04:24.130 align:left position:12.5% line:5% size:77.5% Eric McHenry teaches English at Washburn University 04:24.364 --> 04:28.835 align:left position:17.5% line:5% size:72.5% and was the poet laureate of Kansas from 2015 to 2017. 04:29.502 --> 04:32.872 align:left position:25% line:5% size:65% His books of poetry include Pot Scrubber Lullabies, 04:32.872 --> 04:36.309 align:left position:17.5% line:5% size:72.5% which won the Kate Tufts Discovery Award and Odd 04:36.309 --> 04:38.978 align:left position:25% line:5% size:65% Evening, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. 04:39.612 --> 04:42.148 align:left position:20% line:5% size:70% His poems have appeared in the Three Penny Review, 04:42.382 --> 04:43.516 align:left position:27.5% line:5% size:62.5% The New Republic, 04:43.716 --> 04:47.186 align:left position:15% line:5% size:75% The Yale Review, The Times Literary Supplement and Poetry 04:47.186 --> 04:50.757 align:left position:10% line:5% size:80% Northwest, from whom he received the Theodore Roethke Prize. 04:51.424 --> 04:53.459 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% He also writes essays and criticism 04:53.660 --> 04:56.829 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% for the New York Times, The American Scholar, The Boston 04:56.829 --> 04:59.899 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% Globe and other publications. 04:59.899 --> 05:02.602 align:left position:15% line:5% size:75% Laura Lorson is a broadcast announcer, 05:02.802 --> 05:05.004 align:left position:12.5% line:5% size:77.5% audio producer, show director 05:05.004 --> 05:08.007 align:left position:22.5% line:5% size:67.5% and editor for Kansas Public Radio in Lawrence, 05:08.675 --> 05:10.543 align:left position:20% line:5% size:70% a native of Louisville, Kentucky, 05:10.543 --> 05:13.813 align:left position:17.5% line:5% size:72.5% She has worked in public broadcasting for KPR, 05:13.813 --> 05:19.252 align:left position:12.5% line:5% size:77.5% NPR, the BBC and the BBC World Service for more than 30 years, 05:19.485 --> 05:20.853 align:left position:20% line:5% size:70% with a focus on stories 05:20.853 --> 05:24.390 align:left position:12.5% line:5% size:77.5% pertaining to the fine arts, humanities and liberal arts. 05:24.824 --> 05:27.593 align:left position:10% line:5% size:80% Her work is focused on the idea that the humanities 05:27.593 --> 05:31.364 align:left position:10% line:5% size:80% are not optional, that they are an integral part of modern life 05:31.597 --> 05:34.367 align:left position:27.5% line:83% size:62.5% and are necessary bedrock to the works 05:34.367 --> 05:37.170 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5% and ideas that make life richer and more fulfilling. 05:38.338 --> 05:39.672 align:left position:30% line:5% size:60% Cash Hollistah 05:39.672 --> 05:42.308 align:left position:22.5% line:5% size:67.5% is a national hip hop recording artist, poet, 05:42.608 --> 05:45.511 align:left position:32.5% line:5% size:57.5% speaker, arts educator and philanthropist. 05:46.145 --> 05:49.916 align:left position:10% line:5% size:80% Born and raised in Salina, Cash cites a creative writing class 05:49.916 --> 05:51.918 align:left position:20% line:5% size:70% he took as a sophomore in high school 05:51.918 --> 05:55.188 align:left position:22.5% line:5% size:67.5% as the main catalyst for pursuing a career in music. 05:55.855 --> 06:00.526 align:left position:12.5% line:5% size:77.5% Cash's music has been featured on MTV, VH1 and Postmates. 06:01.194 --> 06:04.497 align:left position:10% line:5% size:80% His work with Humanities Kansas as a speaker, as well as his 06:04.497 --> 06:07.867 align:left position:12.5% line:5% size:77.5% work with students in schools and churches across the state, 06:08.234 --> 06:11.070 align:left position:12.5% line:5% size:77.5% have gained him a reputation as a community leader. 06:12.004 --> 06:14.707 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% Currently, Hollistah sits on the board of directors 06:14.707 --> 06:17.377 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% of the Kansas Music Hall of Fame. 06:17.377 --> 06:20.213 align:left position:15% line:5% size:75% Brennan Bestwick is a poet from Randolph, Kansas, 06:20.413 --> 06:21.381 align:left position:25% line:5% size:65% who earned his M.A. 06:21.381 --> 06:23.516 align:left position:12.5% line:5% size:77.5% from Kansas State University. 06:23.516 --> 06:26.652 align:left position:22.5% line:5% size:67.5% He is an AWP Intro to Journal's award winner 06:26.953 --> 06:29.922 align:left position:17.5% line:5% size:72.5% and the recent recipient of a Glenna Luschei Prairie 06:29.922 --> 06:32.258 align:left position:15% line:5% size:75% Schooner Award for his poem Let Us Pray. 06:33.059 --> 06:35.862 align:left position:15% line:5% size:75% His writing appears in Best New Poets, Colorado 06:35.862 --> 06:38.831 align:left position:40% line:83% size:50% Review, The Journal, Winter Tangerine, 06:39.031 --> 06:43.035 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% The Offing, EcoTheo Review and Elsewhere. 06:43.603 --> 06:46.672 align:left position:10% line:5% size:80% Robert Hubbard, today's Accuracy Judge, has been 06:46.672 --> 06:49.275 align:left position:12.5% line:5% size:77.5% on the periphery of the arts community for some time. 06:50.009 --> 06:53.012 align:left position:20% line:5% size:70% In addition to working as a script supervisor for local 06:53.012 --> 06:56.716 align:left position:17.5% line:5% size:72.5% filmmakers Kevin Willmott and Patrick Ray, among others, 06:57.016 --> 07:00.253 align:left position:10% line:5% size:80% he has made his own short films and has written film and music 07:00.253 --> 07:03.689 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% related content for websites and underground publications 07:03.923 --> 07:06.459 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% such as Film Score Monthly, Microfilm, 07:06.726 --> 07:09.228 align:left position:22.5% line:89% size:67.5% and 366 Weird Movies. 07:09.929 --> 07:12.632 align:left position:15% line:5% size:75% We are so grateful to have these accomplished judges 07:12.632 --> 07:13.866 align:left position:30% line:5% size:60% with us today. 07:14.100 --> 07:17.270 align:left position:15% line:5% size:75% The writer Zadie Smith said "“Time is how you spend your love 07:17.570 --> 07:19.539 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% and we are so glad that these judges 07:19.539 --> 07:22.308 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% are offering their time to their love of poetry. 07:23.943 --> 07:26.078 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% Here is how the contest works. 07:26.078 --> 07:27.613 align:left position:15% line:89% size:75% Students have each selected 07:27.613 --> 07:30.216 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% three poems from the Poetry Out Loud anthology. 07:30.716 --> 07:33.753 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5% Within their selections, they must include a poem 07:33.753 --> 07:35.922 align:left position:27.5% line:83% size:62.5% that was written before the 20th century 07:36.155 --> 07:38.357 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% and a poem that is 25 lines or fewer. 07:39.025 --> 07:40.092 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% In each round, 07:40.326 --> 07:43.029 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% students will be called in a randomly determined order 07:43.029 --> 07:45.965 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% to recite one of the three poems he or she has prepared. 07:46.666 --> 07:48.468 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% Before each recitation 07:48.468 --> 07:49.702 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% the students should identify 07:49.702 --> 07:52.004 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% the title of the poem and the author only. 07:52.905 --> 07:54.440 align:left position:15% line:89% size:75% After the student finishes, 07:54.440 --> 07:56.509 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% the judges, without conferring, 07:56.509 --> 07:58.277 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% will take a moment to individually mark 07:58.277 --> 08:00.179 align:left position:17.5% line:89% size:72.5% their evaluation sheets. 08:00.179 --> 08:03.583 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% The evaluation sheets will be collected and quickly verified. 08:04.417 --> 08:05.418 align:left position:27.5% line:89% size:62.5% The next student 08:05.618 --> 08:08.321 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% will be called onto the stage to recite their poem. 08:09.222 --> 08:11.090 align:left position:27.5% line:83% size:62.5% During each round of the contest 08:11.090 --> 08:14.460 align:left position:15% line:5% size:75% the judges will assess each recitation on these criteria. 08:15.595 --> 08:18.231 align:left position:12.5% line:5% size:77.5% Physical presence and posture. Voice 08:18.231 --> 08:20.533 align:left position:12.5% line:5% size:77.5% projection and articulation. 08:20.533 --> 08:23.669 align:left position:10% line:5% size:80% Appropriateness of dramatization Evidence 08:23.669 --> 08:26.539 align:left position:27.5% line:83% size:62.5% of understanding, and overall performance. 08:27.340 --> 08:30.409 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% In addition, each recitation is scored for accuracy. 08:31.644 --> 08:33.045 align:left position:15% line:89% size:75% Following the second round, 08:33.045 --> 08:35.081 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% the three students receiving the highest 08:35.081 --> 08:38.217 align:left position:12.5% line:5% size:77.5% total scores in the first two rounds will be the finalists 08:38.217 --> 08:42.188 align:left position:17.5% line:5% size:72.5% competing in round three. After round three presentation 08:42.388 --> 08:45.057 align:left position:17.5% line:5% size:72.5% the final scores will be tabulated. 08:45.057 --> 08:47.894 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% The student with the highest total score following round 08:47.894 --> 08:51.864 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5% three will win the Kansas Poetry Out Loud competition. 08:52.532 --> 08:54.300 align:left position:25% line:89% size:65% Let's get started. 08:54.300 --> 08:55.868 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% Please help me. Welcome to the stage. 08:55.868 --> 08:57.703 align:left position:32.5% line:89% size:57.5% Allie Cloyd. 08:57.703 --> 09:05.511 align:left position:30% line:5% size:60% Famous by Naomi Shihab Nye. 09:05.511 --> 09:09.749 align:left position:10% line:5% size:80% The River is famous to the fish. 09:10.917 --> 09:13.619 align:left position:15% line:5% size:75% The loud voice is famous to 09:13.619 --> 09:17.390 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% silence, which knew it would inherit the earth 09:17.723 --> 09:19.792 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% before anybody said so. 09:21.394 --> 09:26.132 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% The cat sleeping on the fence is famous to the birds 09:27.199 --> 09:29.402 align:left position:37.5% line:83% size:52.5% watching him from the bird house. 09:31.137 --> 09:33.105 align:left position:37.5% line:89% size:52.5% The tear 09:33.105 --> 09:35.541 align:left position:37.5% line:89% size:52.5% is famous 09:35.541 --> 09:37.777 align:left position:22.5% line:89% size:67.5% briefly to the cheek. 09:39.045 --> 09:43.282 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% The idea you carry close to your bosom 09:44.016 --> 09:47.153 align:left position:17.5% line:89% size:72.5% is famous to your bosom. 09:47.153 --> 09:49.589 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% The boot is famous to the earth. 09:50.323 --> 09:52.291 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% More famous than the dress shoe, 09:52.291 --> 09:54.860 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% which is famous only to floors. 09:56.095 --> 09:59.932 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% The bent photograph is famous to the one who carries it 10:00.933 --> 10:04.303 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% and not at all famous to the one who is pictured. 10:05.838 --> 10:08.407 align:left position:25% line:89% size:65% I want to be famous 10:08.941 --> 10:13.045 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% to shuffling men who smile while crossing streets. 10:13.045 --> 10:15.348 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% Sticky children in grocery lines. 10:15.348 --> 10:21.887 align:left position:40% line:83% size:50% Famous as the one who smiled back. 10:21.887 --> 10:26.659 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% I want to be famous in the way a pulley is famous 10:27.226 --> 10:28.794 align:left position:27.5% line:89% size:62.5% or a buttonhole. 10:28.794 --> 10:33.032 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% Not because it did anything spectacular, but 10:34.266 --> 10:36.102 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% because it never forgot 10:36.102 --> 10:39.138 align:left position:27.5% line:89% size:62.5% what it could do. 10:45.077 --> 10:45.778 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% Please help me 10:46.045 --> 10:48.648 align:left position:40% line:83% size:50% welcome to the stage, Petr Sotola. 10:49.949 --> 10:51.083 align:left position:27.5% line:5% size:62.5% Art versus trade 10:51.083 --> 10:54.053 align:left position:17.5% line:5% size:72.5% by James Weldon Johnson. 10:55.254 --> 10:56.522 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50% Trade. 10:56.789 --> 10:59.892 align:left position:27.5% line:5% size:62.5% Trade versus Art. 10:59.892 --> 11:01.260 align:left position:40% line:5% size:50% Brain. 11:01.260 --> 11:04.030 align:left position:25% line:5% size:65% Brain versus heart. 11:04.030 --> 11:06.599 align:left position:15% line:89% size:75% Oh, the earthiness of these 11:06.832 --> 11:10.836 align:left position:27.5% line:83% size:62.5% hard, hardy times when clinking dollars 11:11.137 --> 11:16.208 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and jingling dimes join all the final music of the soul 11:17.943 --> 11:21.247 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% life as an octopus with but this creed 11:21.614 --> 11:24.583 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% that all the world was made to serve. 11:25.184 --> 11:26.786 align:left position:35% line:89% size:55% His greed. 11:26.786 --> 11:28.587 align:left position:22.5% line:89% size:67.5% Trade has spread out. 11:28.587 --> 11:30.856 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% His mighty myriad claw. 11:31.490 --> 11:34.660 align:left position:37.5% line:83% size:52.5% And drawn into its foul, polluted maw. 11:35.628 --> 11:38.497 align:left position:15% line:89% size:75% The brightest and the best 11:38.497 --> 11:41.467 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% well nigh has he drained dry 11:42.001 --> 11:47.506 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% the sacred fount of truth, and is forsooth 11:47.740 --> 11:51.010 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% He has left yet some struggling streams from it to go. 11:51.577 --> 11:52.878 align:left position:25% line:89% size:65% He has contaminated 11:52.878 --> 11:56.515 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% So their flow, that truth scarce 11:56.515 --> 11:59.051 align:left position:35% line:89% size:55% Is it true? 11:59.051 --> 12:03.723 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% Poor art with struggling gasp like strangles 12:03.923 --> 12:07.426 align:left position:15% line:89% size:75% dying in his mighty grasp, 12:07.426 --> 12:11.363 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% he locks his grimy fingers bout her snowy throat so tender. 12:12.164 --> 12:14.767 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% Is there no power to rescue her? 12:14.767 --> 12:17.236 align:left position:25% line:89% size:65% Protect defend her. 12:18.604 --> 12:20.773 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% Shall art be left to perish? 12:21.474 --> 12:25.077 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% Shall all the images her shrines cherish be left to this 12:25.077 --> 12:28.047 align:left position:15% line:89% size:75% iconoclast to vulgar trade? 12:29.715 --> 12:33.586 align:left position:27.5% line:83% size:62.5% Oh, then mankind had less of brain 12:34.086 --> 12:36.555 align:left position:25% line:89% size:65% and more of heart. 12:36.555 --> 12:38.457 align:left position:22.5% line:89% size:67.5% Oh, did the world had 12:38.457 --> 12:41.260 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% less of trade and more of art. 12:42.294 --> 12:45.765 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5% Then would there be less grinding down the poor, 12:45.765 --> 12:48.033 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5% Then would men learn to love each other more; 12:48.033 --> 12:52.238 align:left position:27.5% line:83% size:62.5% For trade stalks like a giant through the land 12:53.239 --> 12:56.242 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% bearing aloft the rich in his high hand 12:57.143 --> 12:59.311 align:left position:25% line:89% size:65% while down beneath 12:59.311 --> 13:02.414 align:left position:15% line:89% size:75% his mighty ponderous tread, 13:02.414 --> 13:06.018 align:left position:17.5% line:89% size:72.5% he crushes those who cry 13:06.018 --> 13:09.622 align:left position:27.5% line:89% size:62.5% for daily bread. 13:14.226 --> 13:15.094 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% Please help me 13:15.094 --> 13:17.396 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% welcome to the stage Jaden Huehl. 13:17.396 --> 13:19.665 align:left position:32.5% line:5% size:57.5% Free Radical 13:20.032 --> 13:22.301 align:left position:25% line:5% size:65% by Alison C Rollins 13:26.305 --> 13:29.141 align:left position:27.5% line:5% size:62.5% Before Gilgamesh invented the Kaleidoscope 13:29.575 --> 13:31.744 align:left position:12.5% line:5% size:77.5% and Galileo The Rubik's Cube 13:32.378 --> 13:35.147 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% before the Scimitar Horned oryx went missing 13:35.447 --> 13:37.950 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5% Before the tamarind trees went bare 13:38.617 --> 13:42.188 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% for the stars, eyelids were wrapped in tin foil 13:42.188 --> 13:44.824 align:left position:27.5% line:83% size:62.5% before the leaves could gnaw on water 13:45.624 --> 13:48.260 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% before electrons made donations before 13:48.260 --> 13:51.730 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% the owl wore a mask, before the wind had a sound, before 13:51.730 --> 13:55.100 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% the moon had a name and the smoke a spine 13:55.968 --> 13:58.204 align:left position:32.5% line:83% size:57.5% before tulips crossed their legs 13:58.737 --> 14:02.274 align:left position:12.5% line:5% size:77.5% Before the tongue was armored before the ghosts rode 14:02.274 --> 14:05.945 align:left position:27.5% line:83% size:62.5% centaurs to riots before the cyberspace was culled 14:06.178 --> 14:08.681 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% and bellybutton sewn to wombs 14:09.548 --> 14:14.520 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% before the taste had an after before intellect became property 14:14.520 --> 14:19.124 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5% and thunder premeditated before the new new world 14:19.124 --> 14:21.827 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% Before a stone wished to be more than a stone 14:22.161 --> 14:24.997 align:left position:40% line:83% size:50% Before we had a change of clothes 14:25.631 --> 14:29.168 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% Before the grass was colorblind Before the rivers lost 14:29.168 --> 14:32.071 align:left position:32.5% line:83% size:57.5% their fingers and the rain stopped teething 14:32.905 --> 14:36.675 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% Before the kings were all behead The grave digger, neither young 14:36.675 --> 14:40.412 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% nor old before a lion was still a lion before 14:40.412 --> 14:42.748 align:left position:17.5% line:89% size:72.5% the girls were all killed 14:43.515 --> 14:46.151 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% Before the trapeze gave way. 14:47.519 --> 14:50.322 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50% We hung 14:50.322 --> 14:54.059 align:left position:27.5% line:83% size:62.5% suspended in time by the arches of our curved feet 14:54.426 --> 14:57.396 align:left position:27.5% line:83% size:62.5% And this tickled the gods tickled them to death. 14:58.697 --> 15:01.567 align:left position:35% line:83% size:55% And I think our silence cut us loose. 15:02.334 --> 15:04.470 align:left position:27.5% line:83% size:62.5% Let us go falling from the doubt, 15:04.670 --> 15:08.507 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% secretly thrilled at the hands and ever so eager 15:08.974 --> 15:10.409 align:left position:37.5% line:89% size:52.5% to break. 15:16.782 --> 15:17.416 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% Please help me 15:17.683 --> 15:19.485 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% welcome to the stage, Juan Garcia. 15:20.586 --> 15:22.855 align:left position:17.5% line:5% size:72.5% And if I did, what then? 15:22.855 --> 15:27.593 align:left position:22.5% line:5% size:67.5% By George Gascoigne. 15:27.593 --> 15:29.762 align:left position:17.5% line:89% size:72.5% And if I did, what then? 15:30.396 --> 15:36.101 align:left position:12.5% line:5% size:77.5% Are you aggrieved therefore? The sea hath fish for every man. 15:36.101 --> 15:41.807 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% And what would you have more? 15:41.807 --> 15:44.310 align:left position:17.5% line:89% size:72.5% Thus did my mistress once 15:44.877 --> 15:51.016 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5% amaze my mind with doubt and popped the question 15:51.016 --> 15:55.688 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% for the nonce to beat my brains about. Where to 15:56.021 --> 15:58.324 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% I thus replied, 15:58.324 --> 16:02.461 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% Each fisherman can wish that all the seas 16:02.461 --> 16:07.399 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% at every tide were his alone to fish, and so did I. 16:09.134 --> 16:11.470 align:left position:37.5% line:89% size:52.5% In vain. 16:11.470 --> 16:14.173 align:left position:17.5% line:89% size:72.5% But since it may not be, 16:14.173 --> 16:18.944 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% let such fish there as find the gain and leave the loss 16:18.944 --> 16:23.382 align:left position:40% line:83% size:50% for me. and with such luck and loss, 16:24.583 --> 16:27.353 align:left position:22.5% line:89% size:67.5% I will content myself 16:27.553 --> 16:29.788 align:left position:22.5% line:89% size:67.5% till tides of turning 16:29.788 --> 16:32.858 align:left position:32.5% line:83% size:57.5% time may toss such fissures on the shelf, 16:33.325 --> 16:38.330 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% and when they stick on sands that every man may see, 16:38.764 --> 16:42.801 align:left position:37.5% line:83% size:52.5% then what I laugh and clap my hands 16:42.801 --> 16:47.973 align:left position:22.5% line:89% size:67.5% as they do now at me. 16:55.981 --> 16:56.648 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% Please help me 16:56.648 --> 16:57.916 align:left position:22.5% line:89% size:67.5% welcome to the stage 16:57.916 --> 17:00.352 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% Victoria Jelks. 17:00.352 --> 17:02.354 align:left position:25% line:5% size:65% Frederick Douglass 17:02.354 --> 17:04.757 align:left position:27.5% line:5% size:62.5% by Robert Hayden 17:09.028 --> 17:13.132 align:left position:25% line:5% size:65% When it is finally 17:14.433 --> 17:19.972 align:left position:25% line:5% size:65% ours, this freedom, 17:21.840 --> 17:28.680 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% this liberty, this beautiful 17:28.680 --> 17:32.518 align:left position:25% line:89% size:65% and terrible thing, 17:32.518 --> 17:34.686 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% needful to man 17:34.686 --> 17:38.524 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% as air usable as earth 17:38.791 --> 17:41.060 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% when it belongs at last 17:41.927 --> 17:45.064 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50% to all, 17:45.064 --> 17:47.966 align:left position:17.5% line:89% size:72.5% when it is truly instinct 17:49.068 --> 17:52.571 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% brain matter diastole, systole, 17:52.805 --> 17:55.974 align:left position:32.5% line:89% size:57.5% reflex action 17:56.442 --> 17:58.444 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% when it is finally 17:59.445 --> 18:04.483 align:left position:32.5% line:89% size:57.5% one, when it 18:04.483 --> 18:08.187 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% is more than the gaudy mumbo 18:08.187 --> 18:13.992 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% jumbo of politicians. This man, 18:15.527 --> 18:19.364 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% this Douglass, 18:19.364 --> 18:23.836 align:left position:25% line:89% size:65% this former slave, 18:23.836 --> 18:27.573 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% this Negro beaten to his knees, 18:28.440 --> 18:29.942 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50% exiled, 18:30.676 --> 18:33.445 align:left position:27.5% line:89% size:62.5% visioning a world 18:33.445 --> 18:35.814 align:left position:32.5% line:89% size:57.5% where none is 18:35.814 --> 18:39.585 align:left position:22.5% line:89% size:67.5% lonely, none hunted, 18:41.487 --> 18:44.723 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50% alien. 18:44.723 --> 18:49.795 align:left position:37.5% line:83% size:52.5% This man superb in love and logic. 18:49.795 --> 18:53.999 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% This man shall be remembered. 18:53.999 --> 18:57.836 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% Oh, not with statues rhetoric, 18:58.137 --> 19:02.040 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% not with legends and poems and wreaths 19:02.040 --> 19:05.144 align:left position:22.5% line:89% size:67.5% of bronze alone, but 19:05.144 --> 19:08.313 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% with the lives 19:08.313 --> 19:12.417 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% grown out of his life. 19:12.417 --> 19:17.122 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% The lives flashing, his dream 19:17.122 --> 19:20.826 align:left position:27.5% line:89% size:62.5% of the beautiful, 19:20.826 --> 19:22.161 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50% needful 19:22.161 --> 19:25.998 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50% thing. 19:31.036 --> 19:31.637 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% Please help me. 19:31.970 --> 19:34.740 align:left position:22.5% line:5% size:67.5% Welcome to the stage, Alissa Berrie 19:34.740 --> 19:38.443 align:left position:12.5% line:5% size:77.5% Consider the hands that write this letter. By Aracelis Girmay 19:38.443 --> 19:40.746 align:left position:25% line:5% size:65% after Marina Wilson. 19:42.214 --> 19:45.184 align:left position:12.5% line:5% size:77.5% Consider the hands that write this letter 19:46.051 --> 19:49.421 align:left position:30% line:5% size:60% left palm pressed flat against the paper, 19:49.421 --> 19:53.058 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% as we have done before over my heart 19:53.792 --> 19:56.628 align:left position:37.5% line:83% size:52.5% in peace or reverence to the sea, 19:56.862 --> 20:00.732 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% some beautiful thing I saw once felt once 20:01.266 --> 20:05.904 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% snow falling like rice flung from a Giants wedding 20:06.104 --> 20:10.175 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% or strangest of strange birds, and consider 20:10.442 --> 20:13.412 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% then the right hand and how it is a fist 20:13.912 --> 20:17.249 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5% within which a sharpened utensil similar to 20:17.249 --> 20:18.850 align:left position:15% line:89% size:75% the way I've held a spade, 20:19.818 --> 20:20.419 align:left position:35% line:89% size:55% the horses 20:20.953 --> 20:23.522 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% reins loping the very fist I've seen from roads 20:23.522 --> 20:26.892 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% through Limay & Estelí. For years 20:27.326 --> 20:30.629 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5% I've come to sit this way one hand open, 20:30.862 --> 20:34.967 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% one hand close, like a farmer who puts down seed 20:34.967 --> 20:38.270 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% and gathers up food will come from that farm. 20:39.137 --> 20:43.475 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% Or Yes, it is like the way I've danced my left hand open 20:43.475 --> 20:48.213 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% around a shoulder, right hand inside of another hand. 20:48.213 --> 20:51.984 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% And how I pray, I pray for this to be my way. 20:51.984 --> 20:56.355 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5% Sweet Work alluded to in the body's position to its paper 20:57.489 --> 21:02.361 align:left position:27.5% line:83% size:62.5% left hand, right hand like an eye open 21:02.361 --> 21:05.264 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% an eye closed one hand flat 21:05.530 --> 21:09.901 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% against the trap door, the other hand knocking 21:11.169 --> 21:13.905 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50% knock. 21:20.145 --> 21:23.248 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% While we prepare for round two, let's take a moment to 21:23.248 --> 21:26.618 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% meet some of our contestants. 21:28.253 --> 21:29.554 align:left position:17.5% line:5% size:72.5% My name is Alissa Berrie. 21:29.554 --> 21:31.690 align:left position:10% line:5% size:80% I'm a senior at Olathe Northwest High School. 21:32.424 --> 21:34.526 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% This is my first time at Poetry Out Loud. 21:34.526 --> 21:37.362 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% It's pretty exciting. A little nerve wracking. 21:37.362 --> 21:39.765 align:left position:15% line:5% size:75% So my name is Petr Sotola. 21:39.765 --> 21:42.334 align:left position:32.5% line:5% size:57.5% I'm a senior at Gerard High School, 21:42.834 --> 21:46.505 align:left position:15% line:5% size:75% and I'm a foreign exchange student from Czech Republic. 21:47.506 --> 21:51.009 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% It is my first year competing and it's been wonderful. 21:51.810 --> 21:55.180 align:left position:10% line:5% size:80% I am Allie Cloyd from Manhattan High School 21:55.180 --> 21:57.749 align:left position:22.5% line:5% size:67.5% in Manhattan, Kansas, and I'm a junior this year. 21:58.650 --> 22:02.187 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% This is my second year competing in poetry out loud, 22:02.187 --> 22:06.692 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% and I enjoyed it a lot last year, knew I wanted to come back 22:06.692 --> 22:10.962 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% and I always enjoy meeting other people 22:10.962 --> 22:14.132 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% who are interested in and love poetry 22:14.399 --> 22:16.635 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% and getting exposed to a lot of new poetry 22:16.635 --> 22:19.638 align:left position:17.5% line:89% size:72.5% through Poetry Out Loud. 22:26.812 --> 22:30.148 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% I chose "“Consider the Hands that Write this Letter"” 22:30.148 --> 22:31.883 align:left position:25% line:89% size:65% by Aracelis Girmay 22:31.883 --> 22:33.618 align:left position:35% line:83% size:55% "“Truth is, I would like to escape myself"” 22:33.618 --> 22:35.721 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% by Nour Al Ghraowi and Shall Earth 22:35.721 --> 22:39.157 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% No More Inspire Thee by Emily Bronte, all of which are written 22:39.157 --> 22:42.494 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% by strong female individuals that reflect my writing style. 22:44.096 --> 22:45.797 align:left position:15% line:89% size:75% So first poem that I chose 22:45.797 --> 22:49.067 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% is Art versus Trade by James Weldon Johnson. 22:49.601 --> 22:52.938 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% And I really like the poem because it's talking 22:53.405 --> 22:57.209 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% about their poverty and about like poor people 22:57.209 --> 23:01.012 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% versus rich people, which I find as a quite interesting topic. 23:01.513 --> 23:05.951 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% And then I chose the Tyger by William Blake, 23:06.451 --> 23:08.620 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% and I just really like that one poem 23:09.121 --> 23:10.555 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% because it was in one TV show 23:10.555 --> 23:12.924 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5% that I used to watch with my parents called The Mentalist. 23:13.992 --> 23:17.295 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% My first poem, Famous by Naomi Shihab Nye 23:17.295 --> 23:22.200 align:left position:27.5% line:89% size:62.5% is about kind of 23:22.200 --> 23:25.837 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% what famous can mean in everyday life and some beautiful 23:25.837 --> 23:29.574 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% things all around us that are maybe famous to each other. 23:29.574 --> 23:32.110 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% And I just think it's a fun, really beautiful poem. 23:32.744 --> 23:36.982 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% My second poem is Meeting at an Airport by Taha Muhammad Ali. 23:37.282 --> 23:40.419 align:left position:27.5% line:83% size:62.5% It's a little bit more of a story of two people 23:40.419 --> 23:43.755 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% who are really close but then are separated 23:43.755 --> 23:45.657 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% for a long time and then sort of reconnect. 23:45.657 --> 23:49.461 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% But it's not quite the same after as many years. 23:50.162 --> 23:54.399 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% And the third poem, The Paradox, I think is really cool. 23:54.399 --> 23:57.702 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% Every time I read these poems, there's something new to find. 23:58.837 --> 24:01.973 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% Peeling back the layers of all the different things 24:02.707 --> 24:04.943 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% that the author was trying to communicate through them. 24:04.943 --> 24:07.145 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% And I think the paradox is really cool. 24:07.946 --> 24:09.714 align:left position:15% line:89% size:75% At least my interpretation. 24:09.714 --> 24:13.752 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% The Speaker is sort of a version of death 24:14.085 --> 24:18.490 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5% and as the name suggests, is very paradoxical elements 24:18.490 --> 24:19.057 align:left position:32.5% line:89% size:57.5% about death. 24:19.658 --> 24:21.493 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% But in the end, it's kind of about the idea that 24:22.227 --> 24:24.663 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% you can find liberation and freedom in death. 24:24.663 --> 24:26.932 align:left position:27.5% line:83% size:62.5% And death is not what we make it sometimes 24:34.072 --> 24:38.210 align:left position:15% line:5% size:75% I like poetry because it's just a way to express yourself 24:38.210 --> 24:41.713 align:left position:27.5% line:5% size:62.5% very passionately and just it's an art 24:41.713 --> 24:43.682 align:left position:25% line:5% size:65% form of expression. 24:43.982 --> 24:46.618 align:left position:32.5% line:5% size:57.5% About poetry. 24:46.618 --> 24:48.920 align:left position:17.5% line:5% size:72.5% I think I personally like 24:50.589 --> 24:55.293 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% music and I think that music is basically just poetry with 24:55.861 --> 24:59.264 align:left position:27.5% line:83% size:62.5% like a companion, like a guitar, some piano 24:59.264 --> 25:01.433 align:left position:27.5% line:83% size:62.5% and just a melody and everything. 25:01.433 --> 25:05.937 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% So since I've ever been since, I've always been drawn to music. 25:06.271 --> 25:09.140 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5% I have been always drawn to poetry as well, 25:09.140 --> 25:12.711 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% because it's for me kind of the same thing. 25:12.711 --> 25:16.548 align:left position:15% line:5% size:75% I am a part of my forensics team at my school 25:16.548 --> 25:19.985 align:left position:12.5% line:5% size:77.5% and so started being exposed to a little bit of poetry 25:19.985 --> 25:22.053 align:left position:32.5% line:83% size:57.5% through that and just kept wanting 25:22.053 --> 25:25.056 align:left position:35% line:83% size:55% to find out more and look into more poems. 25:25.056 --> 25:28.093 align:left position:15% line:89% size:75% I think there's just things 25:28.093 --> 25:31.229 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% that we can say through poetry that we can't say through 25:31.563 --> 25:36.768 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% other forms of speech or other forms of writing. 25:41.473 --> 25:43.008 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% I do often write poems. 25:43.008 --> 25:46.411 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% I'm actually the president of the poetry club at my school, 25:46.411 --> 25:50.115 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% my love writing poems as a coping mechanism and just 25:50.549 --> 25:52.951 align:left position:17.5% line:89% size:72.5% a way to express myself. 25:54.853 --> 25:56.288 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% When it comes to writing poems. 25:56.288 --> 25:57.956 align:left position:15% line:89% size:75% I have written a few poems. 25:57.956 --> 26:00.125 align:left position:15% line:89% size:75% I have written a few songs. 26:00.125 --> 26:03.728 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% Because songs are basically poem but with music, like I said, 26:03.728 --> 26:04.529 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% it's been good. 26:04.529 --> 26:07.065 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% I've really enjoyed doing that. 26:07.065 --> 26:10.201 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5% I haven't tried to write much of my own poetry 26:10.201 --> 26:14.105 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% outside of maybe the required English class poem. 26:14.573 --> 26:15.774 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% At least for right now. 26:15.774 --> 26:19.911 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% I enjoy a lot more the reading and sort of literary 26:19.911 --> 26:24.616 align:left position:25% line:89% size:65% analysis of poetry. 26:29.654 --> 26:32.757 align:left position:17.5% line:89% size:72.5% Of course, poetry is just 26:32.757 --> 26:36.595 align:left position:35% line:83% size:55% it's a way to express who you are 26:36.595 --> 26:40.131 align:left position:15% line:89% size:75% and have your voice heard. 26:40.131 --> 26:40.699 align:left position:35% line:89% size:55% Absolutely. 26:41.466 --> 26:43.902 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% I would encourage that because I think there is a lot of 26:44.903 --> 26:47.005 align:left position:17.5% line:89% size:72.5% lot of smartness in poems 26:47.005 --> 26:49.174 align:left position:27.5% line:83% size:62.5% and a lot of them have a good point. 26:51.009 --> 26:53.011 align:left position:25% line:89% size:65% I definitely would. 26:53.011 --> 26:55.513 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% There is maybe a little bit of stigma around poetry, 26:56.147 --> 26:59.818 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5% especially for teenagers and high schoolers. 26:59.818 --> 27:02.821 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% There's so much more out there than the few nature poems 27:02.821 --> 27:06.558 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% that we're exposed to in English class or a haiku. 27:06.558 --> 27:07.392 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50% Right. 27:07.392 --> 27:09.260 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% And so I think 27:09.260 --> 27:11.730 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% there's something for everyone when it comes to poetry, 27:11.730 --> 27:15.033 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% and I would definitely encourage people to just discover 27:15.533 --> 27:18.203 align:left position:35% line:89% size:55% more of it. 27:25.910 --> 27:29.114 align:left position:27.5% line:5% size:62.5% We will now begin the recitations for round two. 27:30.081 --> 27:31.816 align:left position:30% line:5% size:60% Please help me. Welcome to the stage. 27:31.816 --> 27:33.351 align:left position:35% line:89% size:55% Allie Cloyd 27:33.885 --> 27:36.321 align:left position:22.5% line:5% size:67.5% Meeting at an airport 27:36.321 --> 27:42.827 align:left position:22.5% line:5% size:67.5% by Taha Muhammad Ali. 27:42.827 --> 27:46.264 align:left position:12.5% line:5% size:77.5% You asked me once on our way back from the midmorning 27:46.264 --> 27:51.336 align:left position:15% line:5% size:75% trip to the spring, what do you hate and who do you love? 27:52.837 --> 27:54.572 align:left position:15% line:89% size:75% And I answered from behind 27:54.572 --> 27:58.610 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% the eyelashes of my surprise, but rushing in me 27:58.910 --> 28:01.980 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% like the shadow cast by cloud of starlings. 28:03.682 --> 28:05.850 align:left position:27.5% line:89% size:62.5% I hate departure, 28:05.850 --> 28:09.354 align:left position:27.5% line:83% size:62.5% I love the spring and the path to the spring. 28:10.055 --> 28:12.524 align:left position:32.5% line:83% size:57.5% And I worship the middle hours of morning. 28:13.625 --> 28:17.195 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% And you laughed and the almond tree blossomed 28:17.195 --> 28:19.864 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5% and the thicket grew loud with nightingales 28:22.300 --> 28:26.404 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% a question now four decades old. 28:27.839 --> 28:30.775 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% I salute that question's answer and an answer 28:30.775 --> 28:33.278 align:left position:17.5% line:89% size:72.5% as old as your departure. 28:34.746 --> 28:37.182 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% I salute that answers question. 28:37.182 --> 28:40.585 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% And today it's preposterous. 28:40.585 --> 28:43.154 align:left position:35% line:83% size:55% Here we are at a friendly airport 28:43.154 --> 28:45.056 align:left position:15% line:89% size:75% by the slimmest of chances. 28:45.056 --> 28:48.560 align:left position:22.5% line:89% size:67.5% And we meet ah, Lord. 28:49.060 --> 28:50.729 align:left position:37.5% line:89% size:52.5% We meet. 28:50.729 --> 28:53.231 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% And here you are asking again. 28:53.698 --> 28:55.600 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% It's absolutely preposterous. 28:55.600 --> 28:57.836 align:left position:22.5% line:89% size:67.5% I recognized you, but 28:58.803 --> 29:01.106 align:left position:17.5% line:89% size:72.5% you didn't recognize me. 29:02.073 --> 29:03.374 align:left position:35% line:89% size:55% Is it you? 29:03.374 --> 29:05.310 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% But you wouldn't believe it. 29:05.310 --> 29:09.013 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% And suddenly you burst out and ask if you are really 29:09.013 --> 29:12.150 align:left position:17.5% line:89% size:72.5% you, what do you hate and 29:12.150 --> 29:15.453 align:left position:27.5% line:89% size:62.5% who do you love? 29:16.421 --> 29:18.590 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% And I answered 29:19.457 --> 29:22.594 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% my blood, fleeing the whole rushing in me 29:22.594 --> 29:28.366 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% like the shadow cast by a cloud of starlings. 29:28.366 --> 29:32.103 align:left position:27.5% line:89% size:62.5% I hate departure 29:32.103 --> 29:34.072 align:left position:22.5% line:89% size:67.5% and I love the spring 29:34.072 --> 29:36.541 align:left position:15% line:89% size:75% and the path to the spring. 29:36.541 --> 29:39.277 align:left position:32.5% line:83% size:57.5% And I worship the middle hours of morning 29:41.212 --> 29:44.282 align:left position:32.5% line:89% size:57.5% and you wept 29:44.282 --> 29:45.683 align:left position:22.5% line:89% size:67.5% and the flowers bowed 29:45.683 --> 29:49.254 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% their heads and doves in the silk of their sorrow 29:50.255 --> 29:53.291 align:left position:37.5% line:89% size:52.5% stumbled. 29:57.996 --> 29:59.964 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% Please help me. Welcome to the Stage. 29:59.964 --> 30:02.333 align:left position:35% line:5% size:55% Petr Sotola 30:02.333 --> 30:04.836 align:left position:15% line:5% size:75% The Tyger by William Blake. 30:06.271 --> 30:09.407 align:left position:15% line:5% size:75% Tyger, tyger burning bright 30:09.974 --> 30:12.277 align:left position:15% line:5% size:75% In The Forest of the Night. 30:13.077 --> 30:18.750 align:left position:15% line:5% size:75% What immortal hand or eye, Could frame thy fearful symmetry 30:19.984 --> 30:23.454 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% in what distance deeps or skies 30:23.955 --> 30:26.858 align:left position:15% line:89% size:75% burn the fire of thine eyes 30:27.959 --> 30:30.461 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% on what wings dare he aspire 30:31.196 --> 30:34.532 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% What the hand, dare seize the fire? 30:35.767 --> 30:38.770 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% and what shoulder and what art 30:39.003 --> 30:42.040 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% Could twist the sinews of thy heart? 30:43.041 --> 30:46.010 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% And when thy heart began to beat 30:46.010 --> 30:50.148 align:left position:27.5% line:83% size:62.5% what dread hand and what dread feet. 30:50.982 --> 30:53.952 align:left position:15% line:89% size:75% What a hammer, What a chain 30:54.152 --> 30:58.223 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% In what furnace was thy brain? 30:58.223 --> 31:01.326 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% What the anvil? what dread grasp 31:01.993 --> 31:05.096 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% Dare its deadly terrors clasp? 31:06.531 --> 31:09.868 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% When the stars threw down their spears 31:10.435 --> 31:13.104 align:left position:35% line:83% size:55% And watered heaven with their tears 31:13.738 --> 31:16.507 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% Did he smile his work to see 31:17.141 --> 31:21.145 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5% Did he who made the Lamb make thee? 31:22.547 --> 31:27.952 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% Tyger, tyger burning bright In the forests of the night 31:27.952 --> 31:32.523 align:left position:15% line:89% size:75% What immortal hand or eye, 31:32.523 --> 31:35.560 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% Dare frame thy fearful symmetry? 31:41.833 --> 31:45.637 align:left position:30% line:5% size:60% Please help me welcome to the stage Jaden Huehl 31:45.637 --> 31:50.708 align:left position:22.5% line:5% size:67.5% It is not by Valerie Martinez 31:53.444 --> 31:56.714 align:left position:12.5% line:5% size:77.5% We have the body of a woman, 31:56.714 --> 31:59.150 align:left position:17.5% line:5% size:72.5% an arch over the ground. 31:59.150 --> 32:01.185 align:left position:20% line:5% size:70% But there is no danger. 32:01.185 --> 32:03.955 align:left position:15% line:89% size:75% Her hair falls spine bowed 32:04.722 --> 32:06.858 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% But no one is with her. 32:06.858 --> 32:07.625 align:left position:35% line:89% size:55% The desert? 32:07.892 --> 32:11.529 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% Yes, with its cacti or sage sidewinders. 32:12.063 --> 32:13.998 align:left position:22.5% line:89% size:67.5% She is not in danger. 32:15.366 --> 32:16.467 align:left position:32.5% line:89% size:57.5% If we notice 32:16.734 --> 32:19.704 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% there are tracks of animals moving east toward the sunrise 32:19.938 --> 32:20.672 align:left position:32.5% line:89% size:57.5% and the light 32:21.205 --> 32:23.675 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% is about to touch a woman's body without possession. 32:24.409 --> 32:28.379 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% Here there are no girls bones in the earth marked with violets 32:29.013 --> 32:36.587 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% a cholla blooms is just two feet away It blooms. 32:36.587 --> 32:38.690 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% There is a man like her father 32:39.190 --> 32:42.493 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% who wakes to a note saying, I have gone for a day 32:42.493 --> 32:43.761 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% to the desert. 32:43.761 --> 32:46.230 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% Now he knows she is in danger. 32:46.230 --> 32:49.067 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5% He will try to anticipate what happens to a young woman, 32:49.067 --> 32:53.604 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% how it will happen, how he will deal with the terrible. 32:53.604 --> 32:56.207 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5% In him he feels he knows this somehow. 32:56.207 --> 32:59.510 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% He knows because there are men he knows who are capable. 33:00.178 --> 33:03.114 align:left position:35% line:83% size:55% This place she has gone to where. 33:04.015 --> 33:06.351 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% But it doesn't matter. 33:06.351 --> 33:10.121 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% There is, first of all, the heat which scorches 33:10.555 --> 33:13.157 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% snakes with their coils and open mouths. 33:13.157 --> 33:17.962 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% Men who go there with the very thing in mind, the very thing 33:20.264 --> 33:24.602 align:left position:42.5% line:83% size:47.5% it is the desert on its own, miles 33:25.003 --> 33:27.338 align:left position:15% line:89% size:75% beyond what anyone can see. 33:27.872 --> 33:30.408 align:left position:15% line:89% size:75% Not peaceful nor vengeful. 33:30.408 --> 33:32.410 align:left position:22.5% line:89% size:67.5% It does not bow down. 33:32.410 --> 33:34.312 align:left position:27.5% line:89% size:62.5% It is not danger. 33:34.312 --> 33:38.483 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% I cannot speak of it without easing or troubling myself. 33:38.983 --> 33:41.753 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% It is not panorama, nor theater. 33:42.453 --> 33:44.989 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% I do not know. 33:44.989 --> 33:46.724 align:left position:42.5% line:89% size:47.5% It is 33:47.091 --> 33:48.793 align:left position:35% line:89% size:55% conception. 33:48.793 --> 33:51.329 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% The gifts or burdens I bear, 33:51.329 --> 33:55.433 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% whether arch a prayer or danger, they can happen. 33:55.666 --> 33:59.971 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% Yes, we conceived them. This very woman I know 33:59.971 --> 34:03.441 align:left position:27.5% line:83% size:62.5% the man does sit tortured. 34:04.409 --> 34:07.712 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% The desert created merely embodies 34:07.712 --> 34:11.549 align:left position:37.5% line:83% size:52.5% its place and watch us lay our visions. 34:11.549 --> 34:12.784 align:left position:37.5% line:89% size:52.5% Oh, God. 34:12.784 --> 34:15.920 align:left position:37.5% line:89% size:52.5% Upon it. 34:21.359 --> 34:23.061 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% Please help me. Welcome to the stage. 34:23.061 --> 34:24.962 align:left position:32.5% line:89% size:57.5% Juan Garcia. 34:24.962 --> 34:32.136 align:left position:12.5% line:5% size:77.5% What Horror to Wake at Night by Lorine Niedecker 34:36.441 --> 34:39.444 align:left position:35% line:5% size:55% What horror 34:40.311 --> 34:42.980 align:left position:27.5% line:89% size:62.5% to awake at night 34:44.415 --> 34:48.119 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% and in the dimness see 34:49.020 --> 34:51.022 align:left position:37.5% line:89% size:52.5% the light 34:52.090 --> 34:54.192 align:left position:32.5% line:89% size:57.5% time is white 34:55.526 --> 34:58.162 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% mosquitoes bite 34:59.430 --> 35:02.600 align:left position:25% line:89% size:65% I've spent my life 35:02.600 --> 35:04.569 align:left position:35% line:89% size:55% on nothing 35:07.105 --> 35:10.041 align:left position:27.5% line:89% size:62.5% The thought that 35:10.041 --> 35:12.510 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50% stings 35:13.478 --> 35:15.079 align:left position:32.5% line:89% size:57.5% How are you? 35:15.079 --> 35:17.748 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% Nothing Sitting around 35:17.748 --> 35:20.351 align:left position:22.5% line:89% size:67.5% with somethings wife 35:22.019 --> 35:26.491 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% buzz and burn is all I learned. 35:28.025 --> 35:31.395 align:left position:25% line:89% size:65% I've spent my life 35:31.395 --> 35:33.197 align:left position:35% line:89% size:55% on nothing 35:34.365 --> 35:35.600 align:left position:32.5% line:89% size:57.5% I'm pillowed 35:35.600 --> 35:40.805 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% and padded Pale and puffing, lifting household 35:40.805 --> 35:44.342 align:left position:15% line:89% size:75% stuffing, carpets, dishes, 35:44.342 --> 35:47.945 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% benches, fishes 35:47.945 --> 35:50.481 align:left position:25% line:89% size:65% I've spent my life 35:50.481 --> 35:52.483 align:left position:35% line:89% size:55% in nothing. 35:59.357 --> 36:01.893 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% Please help me welcome to the stage. 36:01.893 --> 36:03.995 align:left position:27.5% line:89% size:62.5% Victoria Jelks. 36:03.995 --> 36:06.397 align:left position:15% line:5% size:75% Battle-Hymn of the Republic 36:06.397 --> 36:09.433 align:left position:25% line:5% size:65% By Julia Ward Howe 36:12.236 --> 36:15.973 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% Mine Eyes Have Seen The Glory 36:16.741 --> 36:18.910 align:left position:15% line:5% size:75% of the Coming of the Lord. 36:20.178 --> 36:23.681 align:left position:10% line:5% size:80% He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes 36:23.881 --> 36:25.483 align:left position:22.5% line:89% size:67.5% of wrath are stored. 36:25.483 --> 36:28.386 align:left position:32.5% line:83% size:57.5% He has loosed the fatal lightning 36:29.053 --> 36:31.389 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% of his terrible swift sword. 36:32.924 --> 36:37.995 align:left position:17.5% line:89% size:72.5% His truth is marching on. 36:37.995 --> 36:41.265 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% I have seen him in the watch fires 36:41.465 --> 36:44.001 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% of a hundred circling camps. 36:44.001 --> 36:49.307 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% They have builded him an altar in the evening dews and damps 36:50.708 --> 36:53.377 align:left position:42.5% line:83% size:47.5% I can read his righteous sentence 36:54.078 --> 36:56.781 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% in the dim and flaring lamps. 36:56.781 --> 36:58.883 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50% His day 36:59.083 --> 37:01.552 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% is marching on. 37:01.552 --> 37:04.889 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% I have read a fiery gospel writ 37:04.889 --> 37:09.060 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% in burnished rows of steel, as ye deal 37:09.794 --> 37:18.402 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% with my contemners, so with you my grace shall deal; 37:18.903 --> 37:23.541 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% Let the hero born of woman crush 37:23.541 --> 37:27.845 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% the serpent with his heels Since God is marching on 37:28.279 --> 37:32.683 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% He had sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat. 37:32.917 --> 37:38.122 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% He is sifting out the hearts of men before, his judgment seat. 37:38.122 --> 37:42.393 align:left position:32.5% line:83% size:57.5% Oh, be swift, my soul to answer him 37:43.561 --> 37:45.162 align:left position:25% line:89% size:65% be jubilant my feet 37:45.162 --> 37:49.634 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% Our God is marching on. 37:52.603 --> 37:56.140 align:left position:27.5% line:83% size:62.5% In the beauty of the lillies 37:56.140 --> 38:03.347 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% Christ was born across the sea 38:03.547 --> 38:07.318 align:left position:17.5% line:89% size:72.5% with a glory in his bosom 38:07.952 --> 38:16.427 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% that transfigures you and me 38:17.328 --> 38:21.399 align:left position:35% line:89% size:55% as he died 38:21.399 --> 38:29.907 align:left position:27.5% line:83% size:62.5% to make men holy, let us die, to make men free 38:31.108 --> 38:33.444 align:left position:37.5% line:89% size:52.5% While God 38:34.378 --> 38:37.415 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% is marching on 38:45.089 --> 38:47.658 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5% Please help me Welcome to the stage Alissa Berrie. 38:48.359 --> 38:52.096 align:left position:37.5% line:5% size:52.5% Truth is, I would like to escape myself 38:52.763 --> 38:56.000 align:left position:25% line:5% size:65% By Nour Al Ghraowi 38:56.000 --> 38:57.968 align:left position:37.5% line:89% size:52.5% Truth is 38:57.968 --> 39:00.471 align:left position:12.5% line:5% size:77.5% I would like to escape myself 39:01.138 --> 39:05.509 align:left position:12.5% line:5% size:77.5% Detach my body from my skin, peel it layer 39:05.710 --> 39:10.614 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% by layer to uncover beneath the surface of petals 39:11.082 --> 39:13.784 align:left position:17.5% line:89% size:72.5% and thorns piled up year 39:14.085 --> 39:17.121 align:left position:25% line:89% size:65% after year who I am 39:17.121 --> 39:19.490 align:left position:22.5% line:89% size:67.5% and who I want to be. 39:19.490 --> 39:22.393 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% I want to be the flower that grows in the dirt, 39:22.393 --> 39:26.364 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% the feather that flies free between the cracks of fences. 39:26.964 --> 39:31.569 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% A wise woman once told me, Don't worry about you. 39:32.470 --> 39:34.905 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% Worry about who you could be. 39:36.173 --> 39:38.576 align:left position:32.5% line:83% size:57.5% I want to be the woman who sits on 39:38.576 --> 39:41.912 align:left position:27.5% line:83% size:62.5% a desk and writes pieces of oceans. 39:42.546 --> 39:45.883 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5% Rivers on a white space, in a place 39:46.083 --> 39:51.756 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% where imagination has no border. 39:56.026 --> 39:58.329 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5% While the judges compile the scores from the first 39:58.329 --> 40:04.769 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% two rounds, let's meet the rest of our contestants. 40:04.769 --> 40:07.872 align:left position:17.5% line:5% size:72.5% So my name is Jaden Huehl and I go to Tipton, 40:07.872 --> 40:09.173 align:left position:22.5% line:5% size:67.5% Catholic High School. 40:09.173 --> 40:12.376 align:left position:12.5% line:5% size:77.5% I'm a senior, but I actually live in Sylvan Grove, Kansas. 40:13.744 --> 40:15.246 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% So this is my second year in 40:15.246 --> 40:19.383 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% poetry out loud, and it's been a really interesting experience. 40:19.383 --> 40:21.285 align:left position:25% line:89% size:65% So I do forensics. 40:21.285 --> 40:23.220 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% As a lot of the people who do this event do, 40:23.220 --> 40:26.724 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% and I never did poetry until I started doing poetry out loud. 40:26.991 --> 40:28.526 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% So it really stretched me on 40:28.526 --> 40:30.227 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% what I've done and what I need to do 40:30.227 --> 40:32.730 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% with my performance, memorization and all of that. 40:35.332 --> 40:37.234 align:left position:17.5% line:5% size:72.5% my name is Victoria Jelks 40:37.234 --> 40:39.603 align:left position:12.5% line:5% size:77.5% I am from Horton High School. 40:39.603 --> 40:42.440 align:left position:30% line:5% size:60% I'm a freshman and I am from Horton, Kansas. 40:42.973 --> 40:46.177 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% Yes, this is my first time competing and it's been really 40:46.177 --> 40:47.912 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% a positive experience. 40:47.912 --> 40:49.280 align:left position:17.5% line:89% size:72.5% It's great to be exposed 40:49.280 --> 40:52.383 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% by different poets, different types of poetry. 40:52.383 --> 40:54.718 align:left position:37.5% line:89% size:52.5% So yeah. 40:54.718 --> 40:58.889 align:left position:12.5% line:5% size:77.5% Hello, yes, I am Juan Carlos Garcia 40:58.889 --> 41:01.592 align:left position:27.5% line:5% size:62.5% I go to the Star Splitter Academy 41:01.592 --> 41:03.360 align:left position:22.5% line:89% size:67.5% and I am a freshman. 41:03.594 --> 41:05.262 align:left position:15% line:89% size:75% For the state competition. 41:05.262 --> 41:08.199 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% Yes, this is my first time doing poetry out loud, 41:08.632 --> 41:11.936 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% but with previous poetry out loud, things that I've done it, 41:11.936 --> 41:15.706 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% it was an incredible experience and I loved doing it. 41:23.914 --> 41:27.551 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5% So my first poem is Free Radical by Alison C Rollins. 41:27.551 --> 41:29.753 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% And this poem really spoke to me because it 41:29.753 --> 41:33.491 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% talks about contemplating life and where we're at in it 41:33.491 --> 41:34.892 align:left position:17.5% line:89% size:72.5% and kind of that thought 41:34.892 --> 41:36.126 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% that we all get late at night 41:36.126 --> 41:37.361 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% and it kind of puts that into word 41:37.361 --> 41:38.996 align:left position:32.5% line:83% size:57.5% and it makes you really think about 41:38.996 --> 41:40.498 align:left position:35% line:83% size:55% Why are we here and what are we doing? 41:41.632 --> 41:44.768 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% My second poem, It It Is Not by Valerie Martinez, 41:44.768 --> 41:46.504 align:left position:17.5% line:89% size:72.5% and it kind of goes into 41:46.504 --> 41:48.005 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% how our perception of something 41:48.005 --> 41:50.140 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% really changes who we are within it. 41:50.140 --> 41:51.308 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% And so I think that's just really true 41:51.308 --> 41:53.711 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% and it's a really good lesson to know. 41:53.711 --> 41:57.414 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% And then my final poem is An apology for her poetry 41:57.414 --> 42:00.184 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5% By Duchess of Newcastle Margaret Cavendish 42:00.184 --> 42:02.186 align:left position:22.5% line:89% size:67.5% its a very long name, 42:02.186 --> 42:04.488 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% and it's really just about looking inward 42:04.488 --> 42:05.356 align:left position:25% line:89% size:65% instead of outward 42:05.723 --> 42:07.691 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% and really seeing who people are for what they are 42:07.691 --> 42:09.627 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% and analyzing things a little bit more 42:09.627 --> 42:12.496 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% than just our first impressions 42:13.330 --> 42:15.032 align:left position:25% line:89% size:65% I chose to perform. 42:15.032 --> 42:17.668 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% Frederick Douglass by Robert Hayden, 42:17.668 --> 42:21.038 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% Battle Hymn of the Republic by Julia Ward Howe 42:21.038 --> 42:24.575 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5% and songs for the People by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper. 42:24.575 --> 42:26.677 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50% I chose 42:26.677 --> 42:28.445 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% Frederick Douglass because it 42:28.445 --> 42:32.416 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% really talks about how people years and years ago, 42:32.416 --> 42:36.186 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% just like me, struggle to have freedom and liberty. 42:36.554 --> 42:38.389 align:left position:40% line:83% size:50% And I'm now living through the freedom 42:38.389 --> 42:41.225 align:left position:35% line:83% size:55% and liberty that they weren't given because. 42:41.225 --> 42:43.627 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% Frederick Douglass gave so much to us. 42:44.495 --> 42:46.964 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% The next two poems were mainly because 42:47.431 --> 42:50.568 align:left position:35% line:83% size:55% of the tie between music and poem 42:51.569 --> 42:52.603 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50% poetry. 42:53.304 --> 42:55.673 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50% So I am 42:55.673 --> 42:59.777 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% I have always grown up in music I play piano, 42:59.777 --> 43:03.914 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% French horn, drums, and I sing so and my parents are musicians. 43:03.914 --> 43:06.283 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% So I've just grown up around that environment 43:06.283 --> 43:08.919 align:left position:27.5% line:83% size:62.5% and it's really, it's really positive. 43:08.919 --> 43:11.255 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5% It's something I couldn't shy away from. 43:12.923 --> 43:15.359 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% The first two poems that I chose to do were 43:16.493 --> 43:19.029 align:left position:27.5% line:83% size:62.5% And if I did what then. by George Gascoigne 43:19.029 --> 43:22.132 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% and what Horror to Awake at Night By Lorine Niedecker 43:23.434 --> 43:25.369 align:left position:15% line:89% size:75% and I chose the first poem 43:25.369 --> 43:30.407 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% because of the specific wording that was chosen in the poem. 43:30.407 --> 43:32.443 align:left position:40% line:83% size:50% It fit the categories that were needed 43:32.443 --> 43:35.279 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% and I just personally felt a bit of a connection with it. 43:36.046 --> 43:39.316 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% Now for the second poem that I chose, I had, 43:39.316 --> 43:41.452 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5% I just connected with it instantly. 43:41.452 --> 43:42.419 align:left position:27.5% line:89% size:62.5% I loved it a lot. 43:42.419 --> 43:43.854 align:left position:40% line:83% size:50% I think it's one of my favorite poems 43:43.854 --> 43:45.923 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% that I've ever read because of its depth 43:46.523 --> 43:49.026 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% and because of the meaning of the poem, what 43:49.026 --> 43:51.895 align:left position:35% line:83% size:55% the speaker is experiencing in the poem 43:52.596 --> 43:56.200 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and everything about it pretty much. 44:03.440 --> 44:04.908 align:left position:17.5% line:89% size:72.5% Poetry is really special 44:04.908 --> 44:06.176 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% because it has a lot of 44:06.176 --> 44:07.044 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% emotion to it, 44:07.277 --> 44:08.379 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and I think that's kind of the difference 44:08.646 --> 44:11.281 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% between a lot of different things and it's a lot of layers. 44:11.281 --> 44:12.683 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% So I think good poetry 44:12.683 --> 44:14.485 align:left position:32.5% line:83% size:57.5% is something that you can read four times 44:14.485 --> 44:16.887 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% and get something out of it four different times. 44:16.887 --> 44:18.989 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% And so a lot of the really good poetry, 44:18.989 --> 44:20.357 align:left position:27.5% line:83% size:62.5% the poetry pieces that we're performing 44:20.357 --> 44:22.192 align:left position:42.5% line:83% size:47.5% today have a lot of those layers and 44:22.192 --> 44:23.794 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% It's something that we feel inside 44:23.794 --> 44:25.963 align:left position:35% line:83% size:55% and I will I really connect to these poems. 44:25.963 --> 44:28.832 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% And so poetry just kind of is a way for me to express 44:28.832 --> 44:31.535 align:left position:35% line:83% size:55% how I feel and the things I think about. 44:32.770 --> 44:38.542 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% Poetry is very appealing because its a form of art that many can 44:38.542 --> 44:42.312 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% describe themselves through, can show their emotions through. 44:42.312 --> 44:44.448 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% And each time you read 44:45.749 --> 44:50.821 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% a poem, it can show different values, different perspectives. 44:50.821 --> 44:53.757 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% As you read. It doesn't get old. 44:53.757 --> 44:57.227 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% Poetry just seems to me like a way for 44:58.529 --> 45:02.099 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% a writer to deeply express the inner reaches of their heart. 45:02.900 --> 45:05.936 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% It makes it so that they can say whatever feelings 45:05.936 --> 45:08.872 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% they want to get out, whether metaphorically or literally. 45:09.707 --> 45:14.578 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% And it makes it so that they can write whatever they want to. 45:14.578 --> 45:18.649 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% And as a reader of poetry, I feel like it's it's a very 45:19.717 --> 45:23.821 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% connective experience to read poetry and understand 45:24.021 --> 45:28.358 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% what the speaker was intending and what they wanted to express 45:28.726 --> 45:32.529 align:left position:35% line:83% size:55% and connect with it on an emotional level. 45:38.135 --> 45:40.838 align:left position:30% line:5% size:60% I think poetry is very challenging 45:40.838 --> 45:42.106 align:left position:10% line:5% size:80% because I'm somebody who I like 45:42.106 --> 45:44.141 align:left position:25% line:5% size:65% to have a set rule for what I need to do. 45:44.141 --> 45:45.409 align:left position:22.5% line:5% size:67.5% And that is something about poetry 45:45.409 --> 45:47.811 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% that's a lot different, is there's no set standards 45:47.811 --> 45:49.480 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% and you can kind of do whatever with it. 45:49.480 --> 45:52.182 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% And I think that's one thing I kind of struggled with, 45:52.983 --> 45:53.984 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% but I think it's really got me 45:53.984 --> 45:55.285 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% out of my comfort zone and that's 45:55.285 --> 45:56.787 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% really been a big step for me. 45:56.787 --> 45:58.388 align:left position:32.5% line:83% size:57.5% I'm learning how to express my emotions 45:58.388 --> 46:00.257 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% and what my emotions really look like, 46:00.257 --> 46:02.993 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% what they mean to me, and just analyzing that. 46:04.294 --> 46:06.697 align:left position:12.5% line:5% size:77.5% Yes, I have written a couple of poems, 46:06.930 --> 46:09.166 align:left position:20% line:5% size:70% mainly when my emotions are the highest, 46:09.600 --> 46:12.703 align:left position:25% line:5% size:65% if I've experienced a really high or low time. 46:13.203 --> 46:16.273 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5% So but it really helps me to get my thoughts through 46:16.273 --> 46:21.078 align:left position:37.5% line:83% size:52.5% and helps me to retrieve my calmness. 46:21.078 --> 46:21.879 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50% I guess 46:23.781 --> 46:25.215 align:left position:15% line:5% size:75% I have written many poems. 46:25.215 --> 46:26.550 align:left position:17.5% line:5% size:72.5% I have a poetry notebook 46:26.550 --> 46:28.919 align:left position:17.5% line:5% size:72.5% that I keep by my bedside in case I want to write 46:28.919 --> 46:30.587 align:left position:20% line:5% size:70% anything about a dream that I had, 46:30.587 --> 46:32.923 align:left position:32.5% line:83% size:57.5% or just write about the experience of the day 46:34.525 --> 46:37.694 align:left position:40% line:83% size:50% Writing poetry is just an amazing 46:37.694 --> 46:39.196 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% therapeutic experience for me. 46:39.196 --> 46:42.166 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5% Specifically, I know it's not for everyone, but for me 46:42.733 --> 46:45.269 align:left position:37.5% line:83% size:52.5% I love it and it just makes me feel, 46:45.269 --> 46:49.206 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5% you know, very emotional and it lets me get that out. 46:56.780 --> 46:57.915 align:left position:22.5% line:89% size:67.5% Oh, yeah, absolutely. 46:57.915 --> 46:58.982 align:left position:15% line:89% size:75% I mean, I think you have to 46:58.982 --> 47:00.918 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% give everything at least a chance once. 47:00.918 --> 47:03.453 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% And I think poetry is kind of like reading books. 47:03.453 --> 47:05.255 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5% So a lot of people think they don't like to read. 47:05.255 --> 47:07.124 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% But I argue it's they they just haven't found 47:07.124 --> 47:08.792 align:left position:15% line:89% size:75% what they want to read yet. 47:08.792 --> 47:11.061 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% And so with poetry, maybe the first poet that you 47:11.061 --> 47:13.096 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% read, you're not going to like, but different poets 47:13.096 --> 47:16.800 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% and different ways of poetry and just really getting into it, 47:16.800 --> 47:18.602 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% you can find something that really relates to you 47:18.602 --> 47:20.470 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% and I think that's what poetry is all about, 47:20.470 --> 47:22.606 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% is finding that thing that makes you feel seen 47:22.606 --> 47:25.776 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% and makes you kind of analyze yourself, the world around you, 47:25.776 --> 47:28.011 align:left position:27.5% line:83% size:62.5% and there's poets out there for everybody. 47:29.479 --> 47:31.014 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% I would definitely encourage 47:31.014 --> 47:35.052 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% poetry on people my age, people younger people older. 47:35.052 --> 47:37.454 align:left position:27.5% line:83% size:62.5% It's really a way to express yourself in 47:39.022 --> 47:42.426 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% that no other way can really. 47:42.426 --> 47:45.729 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% I believe I would like I said, I don't think it's for everyone, 47:45.729 --> 47:48.799 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% but it definitely connected to me on an emotional level 47:48.799 --> 47:53.470 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% and I believe that others should definitely give it a chance. 48:03.480 --> 48:06.350 align:left position:10% line:5% size:80% Based on the scores from rounds one and two, 48:06.583 --> 48:09.386 align:left position:17.5% line:5% size:72.5% the top three contestants advance around three. 48:10.187 --> 48:13.190 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% Will the following students please join me on stage? 48:14.324 --> 48:16.793 align:left position:32.5% line:83% size:57.5% The students moving on to compete in round 48:16.793 --> 48:20.898 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% three are Allie Cloyd, Juan Garcia 48:21.331 --> 48:25.836 align:left position:25% line:89% size:65% and Victoria Jelks. 48:29.940 --> 48:32.342 align:left position:27.5% line:83% size:62.5% We will now begin our final round. 48:32.943 --> 48:34.945 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% Please help me welcome to the stage. 48:34.945 --> 48:36.480 align:left position:32.5% line:89% size:57.5% Allie Cloyd. 48:37.881 --> 48:39.683 align:left position:35% line:5% size:55% The Paradox 48:39.683 --> 48:45.889 align:left position:17.5% line:5% size:72.5% by Paul Laurence Dunbar. 48:45.889 --> 48:49.059 align:left position:15% line:5% size:75% I am the mother of sorrows. 48:49.459 --> 48:51.828 align:left position:17.5% line:5% size:72.5% I am the ender of grief. 48:53.030 --> 48:55.599 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% I am the bud and the blossom. 48:56.466 --> 48:59.636 align:left position:15% line:89% size:75% I am the late falling leaf. 49:00.804 --> 49:03.807 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% I am thy priest and thy poet 49:04.308 --> 49:07.644 align:left position:15% line:89% size:75% I am thy surf and thy king 49:09.079 --> 49:11.615 align:left position:27.5% line:83% size:62.5% I cure the tears of the heartsick 49:12.449 --> 49:15.118 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% when I come near they shall sing 49:16.653 --> 49:20.157 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5% white are my hands as a snow drop 49:20.157 --> 49:22.893 align:left position:42.5% line:83% size:47.5% Swart are my fingers as clay 49:23.193 --> 49:26.229 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% dark is my frown as the midnight 49:26.763 --> 49:29.599 align:left position:15% line:89% size:75% fair is my brow as the day 49:30.867 --> 49:33.637 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% battle and war are my minions 49:34.071 --> 49:36.406 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% doing my will as divine 49:37.474 --> 49:40.277 align:left position:15% line:89% size:75% I am the calmer of passions 49:41.111 --> 49:43.547 align:left position:15% line:89% size:75% Peace is a nursling of mine 49:44.915 --> 49:47.150 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% Speak to me gently or curse me 49:47.584 --> 49:50.187 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% Seek me or fly from my sight 49:51.455 --> 49:53.924 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% I am thy soul in the morning 49:54.891 --> 49:58.061 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% Thou art my slave in the night 49:59.296 --> 50:03.467 align:left position:27.5% line:83% size:62.5% down to the grave Will I take the out 50:03.467 --> 50:05.702 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% from the noise of the strife 50:06.970 --> 50:09.806 align:left position:35% line:83% size:55% Then shalt thou see me and know me 50:10.841 --> 50:15.078 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% death then no longer but life 50:16.546 --> 50:19.216 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% then shalt thou sing at my coming 50:19.850 --> 50:24.688 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% Kiss me with passionate breaths Clasp me and smile to have 50:24.688 --> 50:28.925 align:left position:27.5% line:83% size:62.5% thought me aught save the foemen of death 50:30.160 --> 50:33.730 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% come to me, brother when weary come 50:33.730 --> 50:36.400 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% when thy lonely heart swells 50:37.567 --> 50:41.972 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5% I'll guide thy footsteps and lead thee 50:41.972 --> 50:46.143 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% down where the dream woman dwells. 50:50.714 --> 50:51.314 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% Please help me. 50:51.314 --> 50:52.449 align:left position:22.5% line:89% size:67.5% Welcome to the stage. 50:52.449 --> 50:54.718 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% Victoria Jelks. 50:54.718 --> 51:00.190 align:left position:17.5% line:5% size:72.5% Songs for the People by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper 51:03.326 --> 51:07.431 align:left position:22.5% line:5% size:67.5% Let Me Make the Songs for the People, songs 51:07.764 --> 51:12.069 align:left position:12.5% line:5% size:77.5% for the old and young, songs that stir 51:12.736 --> 51:15.972 align:left position:27.5% line:83% size:62.5% like a battle cry wherever they are, sung 51:16.706 --> 51:19.876 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% not for the clashing of sabers, for carnage, 51:20.110 --> 51:23.980 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% nor for strife, but songs to thrill 51:24.181 --> 51:30.687 align:left position:27.5% line:83% size:62.5% the hearts of men with more abundant life. 51:30.687 --> 51:34.825 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% Let me make the songs for the weary amid life's fever 51:34.825 --> 51:39.830 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% and fret till hearts shall relax their tension 51:40.597 --> 51:43.467 align:left position:17.5% line:89% size:72.5% and careworn brows forget 51:45.569 --> 51:47.404 align:left position:35% line:89% size:55% Let me sing 51:47.404 --> 51:50.640 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% for little children before their footsteps Stray 51:51.975 --> 51:54.344 align:left position:22.5% line:89% size:67.5% sweet anthems of love 51:54.644 --> 51:58.281 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% and, duty to float oer lifes highway. 52:00.550 --> 52:05.856 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5% I would sing for the poor and aged when shadows 52:05.856 --> 52:08.658 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% dimmed their sight of the bright 52:09.259 --> 52:11.962 align:left position:22.5% line:89% size:67.5% and restful mansions 52:11.962 --> 52:15.499 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% where they shall be no night 52:17.367 --> 52:18.869 align:left position:37.5% line:89% size:52.5% our world 52:19.703 --> 52:22.339 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50% so worn 52:23.206 --> 52:26.910 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% and weary, needs music 52:27.844 --> 52:30.046 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% pure and strong 52:31.081 --> 52:33.917 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% to hush the jangle and discords 52:34.818 --> 52:37.487 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% of sorrow, pain 52:38.788 --> 52:40.223 align:left position:37.5% line:89% size:52.5% and wrong 52:41.625 --> 52:43.393 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% music to soothe 52:43.393 --> 52:46.796 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% all its sorrow Till war and crime 52:47.097 --> 52:49.399 align:left position:35% line:89% size:55% shall cease 52:50.267 --> 52:53.403 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% And the hearts of men grown tender 52:55.405 --> 52:57.541 align:left position:27.5% line:89% size:62.5% girdle the world 52:59.176 --> 53:04.281 align:left position:35% line:89% size:55% with peace. 53:09.319 --> 53:10.887 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% Please help me. Welcome to the stage. 53:10.887 --> 53:12.656 align:left position:35% line:89% size:55% Juan Garcia 53:13.089 --> 53:18.361 align:left position:15% line:5% size:75% Threshold by Maggie Smith. 53:18.361 --> 53:21.431 align:left position:15% line:5% size:75% He wants a door you can be 53:22.766 --> 53:27.938 align:left position:17.5% line:5% size:72.5% on both sides of at once. 53:27.938 --> 53:35.545 align:left position:27.5% line:83% size:62.5% You want to be on both sides of here and there. 53:35.912 --> 53:40.584 align:left position:17.5% line:89% size:72.5% Now and then together and 53:42.953 --> 53:44.321 align:left position:27.5% line:89% size:62.5% what did we call 53:44.321 --> 53:46.756 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% the life we would wish back? 53:47.924 --> 53:49.960 align:left position:32.5% line:89% size:57.5% The old life 53:50.193 --> 53:51.928 align:left position:35% line:89% size:55% the before 53:54.664 --> 53:57.434 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50% alone. 53:57.434 --> 54:02.672 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% But any open space may be a threshold 54:03.607 --> 54:07.110 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% an arch of entering and leaving 54:07.110 --> 54:11.781 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% and crossing a field, wading through nothing but 54:12.849 --> 54:18.421 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% Timothy Grass. 54:18.421 --> 54:23.159 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% Imagine yourself passing from and into 54:24.160 --> 54:28.665 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% passing through doorway after doorway 54:29.666 --> 54:33.536 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% after doorway. 54:45.048 --> 54:48.485 align:left position:12.5% line:5% size:77.5% As the 2023 Kansas Poetry Out Loud Champion, the state 54:48.485 --> 54:51.621 align:left position:15% line:5% size:75% champion will receive $200 and the opportunity 54:51.621 --> 54:54.824 align:left position:15% line:5% size:75% to compete in the National Poetry out loud contest. 54:55.225 --> 54:57.994 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% This student's school also receives $500 54:57.994 --> 55:00.630 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% to purchase poetry resources for their school library. 55:01.331 --> 55:04.267 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% Should the Kansas State winner be unable to participate 55:04.267 --> 55:06.303 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% in the National Poetry Out Loud finals, 55:06.603 --> 55:07.470 align:left position:32.5% line:89% size:57.5% the runner up 55:07.771 --> 55:09.939 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% will represent Kansas at the National Competition. 55:10.840 --> 55:14.377 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% The runner up will also receive $100 and their school 55:14.377 --> 55:17.547 align:left position:27.5% line:83% size:62.5% will also receive $200 for poetry materials. 55:18.548 --> 55:22.018 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% The person receiving third place in the 2023 55:22.018 --> 55:24.587 align:left position:27.5% line:83% size:62.5% Kansas Poetry Out Loud competition is 55:27.123 --> 55:29.592 align:left position:32.5% line:89% size:57.5% Allie Cloyd. 55:37.500 --> 55:45.008 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% The second place runner up for 2023 Kansas Poetry Out Loud is 55:45.008 --> 55:48.411 align:left position:32.5% line:89% size:57.5% Juan Garcia. 55:55.685 --> 56:00.357 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% The 2023 Kansas Poetry Out Loud champion is 56:00.990 --> 56:04.527 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% Victoria Jelks. 56:13.336 --> 56:16.806 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% Congratulations and thanks to all the students, 56:17.006 --> 56:21.077 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% judges, regional coordinators, parents, teachers 56:21.311 --> 56:22.579 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% and our special guests 56:22.579 --> 56:26.583 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5% for attending the Kansas Poetry Out Loud State Finals. 56:27.016 --> 56:27.984 align:left position:32.5% line:89% size:57.5% Remember that 56:28.218 --> 56:30.854 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% you can watch our state champion represent Kansas 56:31.121 --> 56:36.259 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% at the National Semifinals at arts.gov on May 9th