Allan Monga, Deering High School Junior
They came, they recited, and they were AMAZING! Students from the following high schools were this year’s Poetry Out Loud finalists:
- Abigail vanLuling, Grade 12, Gorham High School
- Hanna Lavenson, Grade 10, Messalonskee High School
- Lauren Farmer, Grade 10, Rangeley Lakes Regional School
- Emma Lombardo, Grade 11, Westbrook High School
- Nelson Peterson, Grade 12, Oak Hill High School
- Lydia Caron, Grade 12, Bangor High School
- Wyatt Bates, Grade 11, Yarmouth High School
- Richard Hilscher, Grade 12, North Yarmouth Academy
- Lauren Dodge, Grade 12, Lee Academy
- Katharine Kemper, Grade 10, Camden Hills Regional High School
- Allan Monga, Grade 11, Deering High School
You can listen to them recite from the regional finals held earlier this winter on the Maine Arts Commission site.
Allan Monga, Deering High School
Yahooooo for Allan Monga from Deering who is Maine’s 2018 State Champ. The poems he recited at the Waterville Opera House on March 20th at the state finals included “The Song of the Smoke” by W.E.B. Du Bois, “She Walks in Beauty” by Lord Byron (George Gordon) and “In the Desert” by Stephen Crane. You can hear him recite “In the Desert” on Maine Public Radio.
The Maine Arts Commission is proud of all of the recipients and wish Allan the best at the national finals which will be held in Washington, D.C., on April 23-25. They will be live streamed – look for the link in a later blog post.
CONGRATULATIONS to Allan and all of the 9,500 students in schools across the state who participated this year. See hundreds of photos from the state finals on the Maine Arts Commission Facebook page.
Waterville High School jazz band under the direction of music educator Sue Barre provided music at the state finals
Poetry Out Loud is organized nationally by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Poetry Foundation and administered at the state level by the Maine Arts Commission. It begins in Maine’s schools where school champions are selected to compete in two regional finals at which ten students are ultimately selected to recite at the state finals. One student, the state champion, moves on from the state finals to represent Maine at the national finals in Washington D.C., where students from all 50 states, the District of Columbia, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rico will compete for a total of $50,000 in awards and school stipends for the purchase of poetry books.
Lauren Dodge, Lee Academy
Charles Stanhope, Chair Maine Arts Commission, Allan Monga, Maine State Champion, Julie Richard, Executive Director, Maine Arts Commission
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