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Check out the new additions to the Arizona Poetry Out Loud student website including new website resources and ways to get involved

Over 4,000 high school students across Arizona participated in the Poetry Out Loud 2008 recitation sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts and The Poetry Foundation.  Poetry Out Loud is a statewide program for students grades 9-12.

Poetry Out Loud Prizes

At the state level, the first-place winner will receive $200 and an all-expenses-paid trip to Washington, D.C., to compete for the national championship. The state champion’s school library will receive a $500 stipend toward the purchase of poetry books. The runner-up will receive $100, and $200 for his or her school library.

The Poetry Out Loud National Recitation Competition awards a total of $50,000 in scholarships and school stipends at the national finals, and the national champion will receive a $20,000 college scholarship.