Join Poetry Out Loud

Join the thousands of teachers and students who have become inspired, had fun and surprising success making poetry matter for students!

Visit the the Kansas Poetry Out Loud Ning site, to fill out the online registration form. You can also download the registration form and email it directly to your regional coordinator. Your regional coordinator who will contact you about teacher packets, which include guides, the Poetry Out Loud anthology, and an audio CD of famous poets and actors reading poetry are available at no cost.

Poetry Out Loud is a great way to teach poetry and help students with written and oral communication skills. Poetry Out Loud is the only national poetry contest for high school students and was designed so that teachers may easily implement this “poetry bee” contest in the classroom. Poetry Out Loud awards more than $100,000 in prizes to students and schools at the state and national levels.

Teachers love the program because it...

• fits well into their literature curriculum

• creates an entry point for students to appreciate poetry

• strengthens community in the classroom

• reaches students whom they’ve never thought would take to poetry and take to the stage.

Poetry Out Loud satisfies most of the National Council for Teachers of English (NCTE) English Language Arts Standards. In addition to memorizing and performing great poems, students will have theopportunity to discuss poetry and—if the teacher wishes to use the supplemental lesson plans—to write poetry of their own.