Pages Tagged With: "poems"
Poetry Out Loud – 2009
Tonisha Jones from Middletown High School was crowned the winner of the Delaware state Poetry Out Loud contest for the second year in a row on March 5th, 2009 at the Smyrna Opera House. Twelve students from high schools throughout Delaware competed for the title, enthralling the audience with memorized poetry classics from an anthology […]Read More
Poetry Out Loud – 2010
Competing among seventeen students from schools throughout Delaware, Alex Cummiskey from Middletown High School became the winner of the state Poetry Out Loud contest held at the Smyrna Opera House on February 24th. His recitation of Chicago by Carl Sandburg, A Satirical Elegy on the Death of a Late Famous General by Jonathan Swift, […]Read More
Poetry Out Loud – 2012
Elizabeth Landon, a junior from Wilmington Christian School, won Delaware’s Poetry Out Loud state competition on March 13, 2012, held at the Smyrna Opera House. Landon’s recitations of “Ah! Why, Because the Dazzling Sun,” by Emily Jane Brontë, “Golden Retrievals,” by Mark Doty and “On Virtue,” by Phillis Wheatley earned her high marks with […]Read More
