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Poetry Out Loud

Flyer has a red speckled background with a black vignette. Bold letters read Poetry Out Loud Mississippi Recitation Contest and there is text reading Wednesday, Jan 22. The Margaret Walker Center and the Mississippi Arts Commission logos are near the bottom. Text also reads JSU Student Center Theater 12 pm.

Join us in the Jackson State University Student Center Theater at noon on January 22 for the central regional Poetry Out Loud competition. Poetry Out Loud is a nationwide high school contest in which students compete by reciting poetry; winners are decided by judges using a variety of metrics like memorization and articulation.

The program is sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Mississippi Arts Commission, and the Poetry Foundation.

Learn more about the competition on the Poetry Out Loud website.