Poetry Out Loud - Illinois State Contest 2019

Poetry Out Loud - Illinois State Contest 2019

Contestants/Poems:

Scottlynn Ballard
“Self-Help”
By Marilyn Nelson

Alyssa Argent
“Very Large Moth”
By Craig Arnold

Scottlynn Ballard
“Worth”
By Marilyn Nelson

Cassandra Bradbury
“Cartoon Physics, part 1”
By Nick Flynn

Isabella Brown
“Semi-Splendid”
By Tracy K. Smith

Nico Chiligiris
“Blade, Unplugged”
By Tim Seibles

Kenzie Clerk
“Bleeding Heart”
By Carmen Giménez Smith

Stephanie Collis
“A Poison Tree”
By William Blake

Regan Cook
“When You Are Old”
By William Butler Yeats

Charles Hsu
“The Legend”
By Garrett Hongo

Bushra Khan
“Dover Beach”
By Matthew Arnold

Nanette Nkolomoni
“Domestic Situation”
By Ernest Hilbert

Kylie Rauch
“Mrs. Caldera’s House of Things”
By Gregory Djanikian

Grace Sturtewagen
“It was not Death, for I stood up, (355)”
By Emily Dickinson

Paige Twidell
“Ah! Why, Because the Dazzling Sun”
By Emily Bronte

Cole White
“Rondeau”
By Leigh Hunt

Ian Wilkey
“Dirge in Woods”
By George Meredith

Poem Credits:

“Ah! Why, Because the Dazzling Sun”
Source: The Longman Anthology of Poetry (2006)

“Blade Unplugged”
Tim Seibles, "Blade, Unplugged" from Fast Animal. Copyright © 2012 by Tim Seibles. Reprinted by permission of Etruscan Press.

“Bleeding Heart”
Carmen Giménez Smith, “Bleeding Heart” from The City She Was. Copyright © 2011 by Carmen Giménez Smith. Reprinted by permission of Center for Literary Publishing.
Source: Please Excuse This Poem: 100 New Poets for the Next Generation (Viking Press, 2015)

“Cartoon Physics, part 1”
"Cartoon Physics, part 1" by Nick Flynn from Some Ether. Copyright 2000 by Nick Flynn. Reprinted by permission of Graywolf Press.
Source: Some Ether (Graywolf Press, 2000)
“Domestic Situation”
Ernest Hilbert, “Domestic Situation” from Sixty Sonnets. Copyright © 2009 by Ernest Hilbert. Reprinted by permission of Red Hen Press.
Source: Sixty Sonnets (Red Hen Press, 2009)

“Dirge in Woods”
(Common Domain)

“Dover Beach”
(Common Domain)

“It was not Death, for I stood up, (355)”
Dickinson poems are electronically reproduced courtesy of the publishers and the Trustees of Amherst College from THE POEMS OF EMILY DICKINSON: VARIORUM EDITION, Ralph W. Franklin, ed., Cambridge, Mass: The Belknap Press of Harvard University of Press, Copyright © 1988 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. Copyright © 1951, 1955, 1979, 1983 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College.
Source: The Poems of Emily Dickinson: Variorum Edition (Harvard University Press, 1998)

“The Legend”
Garret Hongo, “The Legend” from The River of Heaven (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987). Copyright © 1988 by Garret Hongo. Used by permission of the Darhansoff Verrill Feldman Literary Agents.
Source: The River of Heaven (Alfred A. Knopf, 1988)

“Mrs. Caldera’s House of Things”
Gregory Djanikian, “Mrs. Caldera’s House of Things” from About Distance. Copyright © 1995 by Gregory Djanikian. Used by permission of Carnegie Mellon University Press.
Source: About Distance: Poems (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1995)

“A Poison Tree”
(Common Domain)

“Rondeau”
(Common Domain)

“Self-Help”
Source: Poetry (July/August 2013)

“Semi-Splendid”
Source: Poetry (February 2017)

“Very Large Moth”
Source: Poetry (October 2013)

“When You Are Old”
Source: The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats (1989)

“Worth”
Marilyn Nelson, "Worth" from Faster Than Light: New and Selected Poems, 1996-2011. Copyright © 2012 by Marilyn Nelson. Reprinted by permission of Marilyn Nelson.
Source: Faster Than Light: New and Selected Poems, 1996-2011 (Louisiana State University Press, 2012)