On September 13, CBS News Sunday Morning featured a segment on the 2009 Poetry Out Loud National Finals, which took place last April. Host (and poet) Charles Osgood visited Washington, DC, to tape interviews with various participants, including guest judge Garrison Keillor and state champions. CBS Sunday Morning is seen nationally by 4.9 million viewers each week. Click here to view the video.
Osgood also recorded a related audio segment for the September 11 edition of The Osgood File, a national radio feature that airs on more than 400 stations across the country.
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Welcome to Poetry Out Loud: National Recitation Contest. Created by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Poetry Foundation, Poetry Out Loud is administered in partnership with the State Arts Agencies of all 50 states, the District of Columbia, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rico.
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 Derek Walcott Derek Walcott was born in 1930 on the island of Saint Lucia. He published his first poem, a 44-line poem in blank verse, in the local newspaper at the age of fourteen. At nineteen he self-published two books, borrowing $200 to print his first collection, 25 Poems, which he distributed on street corners. Walcott’s poetry often ...More » Poems Becune Point |