Monday, May 15, 2012

National Final
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm ET

COLORADO
Samuel Opoku
"Famous" by Naomi Shihab Nye
"Calling Him Back from Layoff" by Bob Hicok

IOWA
Gwen Morrison
"The Blackstone Rangers" by Gwendolyn Brooks
"Preludes" by T.S. Eliot

MISSISSIPPI
Kristen Dupard
"I'm a Fool to Love You" by Cornelius Eady
"What Work Is" by Philip Levine

NEBRASKA
Russell Heitmann
"Poem with One Fact" by Donald Hall
"Dover Beach" by Matthew Arnold

NORTH CAROLINA
Jessica Kariisa
"Ego" by Denise Duhamel
"Early Affection" by George Moses Horton

PENNSYLVANIA
Daphnee R. McMaster
"Candles" by Carl Dennis
"Spring" by Gerard Manley Hopkins

UTAH
MarKaye Hassan
"I felt a Funeral, in my Brain" by Emily Dickinson
"Ego" by Denise Duhamel

VERMONT
Claude Mumbere
"Chicago" by Carl Sandburg
"Strange Meeting" by Wilfred Owen

WASHINGTON
Langston Ward
"Dover Beach" by Matthew Arnold
"The Truly Great" by Stephen Spender