Though South Dakota’s State Poetry Out Loud Competition focuses on presenting poetry recitations, we also provide an opportunity for student poets to submit their original work through this sidecar program.
If a student in your school enters the Poetry Out Loud competition by submitting a video entry in the preliminary round, you are also invited to enter up to five original poems by students at the same time. The poems can be written by the same student author or different students. The original poems should be eight to 50 lines and include the title of the poem and name of the author. If the poem is intended as a spoken word piece, it may be submitted in video or audio format using a live link to the recording. Three student poets will be selected to present their original poetry between rounds of the state competition on March 10. Cash prizes will be awarded to the presenters.
Preliminary round submissions are due Feb. 16. Instructions will be posted soon!
