Poetry Out Loud 2017 - Region 3

0:00 - WELCOME - Eleanor Billington 4:04 - REMARKS - Josephine Reed ROUND 1 11:13 - Addi Garner - Washington - “Possible Answers to Prayer” by Scott Cairns 13:11 - Zachary Howatt - North Dakota - “Holy Sonnets: Death, be not proud” by John Donne 15:17 - Grace Cai - Texas - “The Gift” by Li-Young Lee 18:13 - Nicholas Amador - Hawaii - “Dover Beach” by Matthew Arnold 21:25 - Michelle Zhou - New Mexico - “May You Always be the Darling of Fortune” by Jane Miller 23:18 - Isabella Weiss - Alaska - “Cartoon Physics, part 1” by Nick Flynn 25:32 - Lauren Haiar - Wyoming - “Beautiful Wreckage” by W.D. Ehrhart 27:58 - Will Edelson - Colorado - “To be of use” by Marge Piercy 30:35 - Madison Lukomski - South Dakota - “Mingus at the Showplace” by William Matthews 33:32 - Megan Kim - Oregon - “Degrees of Gray in Philipsburg” by Richard Hugo 37:43 - Benjamin Engel - Utah - “The Death of Allegory” by Billy Collins 40:48 - Anna Kochevar - Minnesota - “The Gaffe” by C.K. Williams 45:28 - Chloe Wherry - Idaho - “The Strength of Fields” by James L. Dickey 51:04 - Anaka Ronan - Montana - “Quite Frankly” by Mark Halliday 54:26 - Levi Lakota Lowe - California - “The Death of Allegory” by Billy Collins 58:46 - Gabrielle S. Hunt - Nevada - “The Nail” by C.K. Williams 1:01:39 - Kellen V. Vu - Arizona - “Fishing on the Susquehanna in July” by Billy Collins ROUND 2 1:04:21 - Addi Garner - Washington - “The Charge of the Light Brigade” by Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1:07:07 - Zachary Howatt - North Dakota - “Buick” by Karl Jay Shapiro 1:09:52 - Grace Cai - Texas - “What It Looks Like To Us and the Words We Use” by Ada Limón 1:12:09 - Nicholas Amador - Hawaii - “Lions” by Sandra McPherson 1:15:15 - Michelle Zhou - New Mexico - “I Am Learning To Abandon the World” by Linda Pastan 1:16:46 - Isabella Weiss - Alaska - “Requests for Toy Piano” by Tony Hoagland 1:19:17 - Lauren Haiar - Wyoming - “Lunar Baedeker” by Mina Loy 1:21:31 - Will Edelson - Colorado - “Israfel” by Edgar Allan Poe 1:24:51 - Madison Lukomski - South Dakota - “Chicago” by Carl Sandburg 1:28:23 - Megan Kim - Oregon - “Bleeding Heart” by Carmen Giménez-Smith 1:31:42 - Benjamin Engel - Utah - “In the Desert” by Stephen Crane 1:32:41 - Anna Kochevar - Minnesota - “Dear Reader” by Rita Mae Reese 1:35:15 - Chloe Wherry - Idaho - “Diameter” by Michelle Y. Burke 1:38:07 - Anaka Ronan - Montana - “Song of Myself: 35” by Walt Whitman 1:42:18 - Levi Lakota Lowe - California - “Chorus Sacerdotum” by Baron Brooke Fulke Greville 1:45:36 - Gabrielle S. Hunt - Nevada - “The Mortician in San Francisco” by Randall Mann 1:48:30 - Kellen V. Vu - Arizona - “Personal” by Tony Hoagland 1:50:50 - AWARDS PRESENTATION 1:56:23 - ANNOUNCEMENT OF REGIONAL FINALISTS ROUND 3 1:57:48 - Addi Garner - Washington - ''Tarantulas on the Lifebuoy'' by Thomas Lux 1:59:50 - Zachary Howatt - North Dakota - ''The Death of Allegory'' by Billy Collins 2:02:59 - Grace Cai - Texas - ''On the Death of Anne Brontë'' by Charlotte Brontë 2:04:51 - Nicholas Amador - Hawaii - ''Windy City'' by Stuart Dybek 2:06:33 - Will Edelson - Colorado - ''Sparklers'' by Barbara Crooker 2:08:25 - Madison Lukomski - South Dakota - ''Mezzo Cammin'' by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 2:10:18 - Anna Kochevar - Minnesota - ''The Idler'' by Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson 2:12:35 - Kellen V. Vu - Arizona - ''I heard a Fly buzz - when I died'' by Emily Dickinson 2:14:04 - ANNOUNCEMENT OF NATIONAL FINALISTS