Poetry Out Loud Region 1 Competition
Date/Time
Date(s) - January 25, 2025
All Day
Location
Ben May Main Library
Categories
The Region 1 Poetry Out Loud competition will be held Saturday, January 25th, 2025. Region 1 consists of Baldwin, Butler, Clarke, Choctaw, Conecuh, Covington, Escambia, Marengo, Mobile, Monroe, Washington, and Wilcox counties. Only currently enrolled students in grades 9th-12th are eligible, with an exception made for 8th-grade students participating in a 9th- through 12th-grade class. A student may not advance to the state finals without competing in a lower-level competition.
There are three categories for the Alabama competition: Anthology, Social Issues and Original Poetry. Anthology Poems that are eligible for the Anthology competition can be found on the Poetry Out Loud website. Students must provide the titles and authors of their poems and the order in which they will be recited to the coordinator. Students may not change their poems or their order once submitted. This will enable the coordinator to have poems for the accuracy judge and prompter and evaluation sheets prepared.
State and national finals consist of three rounds of competition. Our Region 1 Competition will have two rounds, but students must recite only one poem in each round. At the state and national finals, students must have three poems prepared. For the Anthology Competition, one poem must be 25 lines or fewer, and one must be written before the 20th century. One poem may be used to meet both criteria, and may be the student’s third poem.
The registration form linked below should be filled out by the individual student planning to compete in the regional competition on January 25th, 2025 no later than Saturday, January 18th, 2025 at 11:59 p.m. You can register, here.
If you are an educator or student in Baldwin, Butler, Clarke, Choctaw, Conecuh, Covington, Escambia,
Marengo, Mobile, Monroe, Washington, & Wilcox counties, contact Sydney Cramer, Region 1 Poetry Out Loud Coordinator, with any questions at scramer@mobilearts.org.