Poetry Slam 2003

 

Recitations

 

"I Hear America Singing" by Walt Whitman

The Global Lit Students

"Basketball" by John M. Thayer

Brian Draher and DJ Kober

"The Walrus and the Carpenter"

by Louis Carroll

Sammy Marion and Haley Veerman

"The Conqueror Worm" by Edgar Allan Poe and "Jabberwocky" by Louis Carroll

Stacia Munge and Aubry Stapleton

"Nobody" by Shel Silverstein

Nicole Pullum

"The Nap Taker" by Shel Silverstein

Melody McLeod and Kailey Piper

"Ickle Me, Pickle Me, Tickle Me Too" and "Backward Bill" by Shel Silverstein

Brenna Towery and Caitlin Hartman

"The Pointless Poem" by Dog E. the cat

Colby Spangler and Alex Seidell

"Myself" by Henry Winkler

Shayla McLean

"Someone Should Have Told Him"

author unknown

Brittany Wilson

"Nothing Gold Can Stay" by Robert Frost

Dean Shaffer

"The Charge of the Light Brigade"

by Alfred Lloyd Tennyson

The Global Literacy Students

"September 11, 2001" author unknown

Katie Waters

"Bury Me in a Free Land"

by Frances E. W. Harper

Tasha Miles and Kristen Schubert

"Someone Should Have Told Him"

author unknown

Samantha Fox

"I Am an American"

by Danielle M. Giordano

Ashley Thorpe

 

 

 

Original Poetry

 

"Child Labor" by Derek Montgomery

"How it Looks" by Marissa Mallory

"The Lady in Red" by Mike Eaton

"Accounting for Friends"

by Brittany Siefferman

"A Poem from Me" by Kasey Dodd

"To You" by Emily Berger

"You Hate Me" by Rikki Cottrell

"War with Iraq" by Dean Shaffer

"Growing Up in a War"

by Breanna Hohimer

"The Girl" by Ashley Hale

"Suicide" by Heather Cash

"My Silent Cry" by Tanishia Kirtley

"Sounds of Racism" by Skylyn Winn

"Questions" by Samantha Howard

Why by Cindy Boston

"Remember" by Ashlie Appleyard, Tony Doman, and Ryan Graves

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Improvisational Poets

 

I.                    Dan Nolen, Corey Allen, Chris Evans, and Evan McCabe

 

II.                  Benn Pennell, Megan Morrison, Mathias Peterson, Dexter Grider, and James Conley

 

III.            Sac Carr, Cory Pfanz, Jon St. Andre, Batt Perry, and Nate Bennett

 

Fare thee well to Dr. Nelson from Chaucer

"And gladly would he learn, and gladly teach."

 

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Performance Groups

 

"I'm Nobody, Who Are You?"

by Emily Dickinson

Sarah Blanchard and Raelynn McAdams

                               Bold = Broadmoor Students