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Poetry Out Loud North Dakota

High school students from around North Dakota perform poems by poets from Shakespeare to the current Poet Laureate, Joy Harjo. Each episode has recitations from the statewide contest. The students studied the poems to understand the meaning and worked on creating the best performance, and the results are intense and often moving. ND Poetry Out Loud is organized by the North Dakota Council on the Arts with support from the Poetry Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Latest Episodes
  • "Poems for the Moment" is a series of short pieces -- poems by North Dakota poets that we invited to share poems reflecting the current moment -- some of…
  • Cassandra Rostvedt does 1969 by Alex Dimitrov, Skylar Longtin does Let It Be Forgotten and Gabi Oberg does I Remember, I Remember. Good performances, no…
  • Bill Thomas presents a selection of many of the performances from the 2020 North Dakota Finals. For this, the students study the poems meaning – not just…
  • On this episode, three poems with different takes on nature -- Kylie Howatt from Northwood does Don't Bother the Earth Spirit by Joy Harjo (Poet Laureate…
  • Mira Osborne from the Minot Magic City Campus does "Where the Wild Things Go" by D. Gilson, and Maria Kalb (who took top honors in North Dakota) does…
  • They were forecasting high winds and 3 to 5 inches, some of the high schools might not make it, but the competitors, coaches, parents and friends made…