2014 Poetry Out Loud State Finalist Information
School
Student Representative
Poem Choices
Joslyn Gardner
The Cross of Snow
Domestic Situation
Song of the Shattering Vessels
Wilmington Christian School James Rath
Alone
The Way It Sometimes Is
A Satirical Elegy on the Death of a Late Famous General
Ursuline Academy
Maryam Pasdar
Baudelaire
The Widow’s Lament in Springtime
A March in the Ranks Hard-Prest and the Road Unknown
Tall Oaks Classical School
Kana Turley
Solitude
Echo
Fairy-tale Logic
St. Marks High School
Bridget Rocha
Ecology
A Letter to Her Husband, absent upon Publick employment
Invictus
Seaford Senior High School Kelly Velasques-Perez
Tomorrow
Enough
Concord Hymn
Sanford School
Christopher Malafronti
Torque
There’s Been a Death, in the Opposite House
After working sixty hours again for what reason
Red Lion Christian Academy Kathleen Becker
Sestina: Like
Channel Firing
Every single Day
Polytech High School
Idalis Stamas
And Soul
Richard Cory
Abandoned Farmhouse
Padua Academy
Daria Chicosky
I Felt A Funeral in My Brain
Self-Help
American Smooth
Poet
Wilmington Friends School
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Ernest Hilbert
Peter Cole
Edgar Allan Poe
Henry Taylor
Jonathan Swift
Delmore Schwartz
William Carlos Williams
Walt Whitman
Wheeler Wilcox
Christina Rossetti
A. E. Stallings
Jack Collom
Anne Bradstreet
William Ernest Henley
Dennis O’Driscoll
Suzanne Buffman
Ralph Waldo Emerson
David Rivard
Emily Dickinson
Bob Hicok
A. E. Stallings
Thomas Hardy
John Straley
Eavan Boland
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Ted Kooser
Emily Dickinson
Michael Ryan
Rita Dove
Mount Sophia Academy
Genna Hahn
Ice
Mrs. Caldera’s House of Things
The Tables Turned
First State School
Janay Brooklyn Laws
The Road Not Taken
We Wear the Mask
The New Decalogue
Erin Paige Dugan
Dover High School
The Arrow and the Song
A Song in the Front Yard
It was not Death, for I stood up
Sydney Badel
Caravel Academy
Annabel Lee
Song
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
Syda Isaacs
Brandywine High School
The Song of Smoke
Alone
On Virtue
Appoquinimink High School Kellina Moore
Candles
Vixen
Alone
Gail Mazur
Gregory Djanikian
William Wordworth
Robert Frost
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Ambrose Bierce
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Gwendolyn Brooks
Emily Dickinson
Edgar Allan Poe
Edmund Waller
Christopher Marlowe
W. E. B.DuBois
Edgar Allan Poe
Phyllis Wheatley
Carl Dennis
W. S. Merwin
Edgar Allan Poe