Tuesday, April 30, 2013

National Final
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm ET

ILLINOIS
Rapheal K. Mathis
"Silence" by Thomas Hood
"Buick" by Karl Shapiro

MARYLAND
Blessed Sheriff
"The Lamb" by Linda Gregg
"Heaven" by Cathy Song

MINNESOTA
Oluwatosin Oyeyemi Ajagbe
"Give All to Love" by Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I Am the People, the Mob" by Carl Sandburg

NEBRASKA
Russell Heitmann
"The Universe as Primal Scream" by Tracy K. Smith
"Poem with One Fact" by Donald Hall

NEW JERSEY
Kavita Oza
"Ego" by Denise Duhamel
"The Sun Rising" by John Donne

OKLAHOMA
Denise L. Burns
"The True-Blue American" by Delmore Schwartz
"Baudelaire" by Delmore Schwartz

TEXAS
Maria Jose Zuniga
"Calling Him Back from Layoff" by Bob Hicok
"The Pomegranate and the Big Crowd" by Alberto Ríos

UNITED STATE VIRGIN ISLANDS
Josae Martin
"The Bones of My Father" by Etheridge Knight
"Holy Sonnets: Batter my heart, three-person’d God" by John Donne

WASHINGTON
Langston Ward
"The Gift" by Li-Young Lee
"A March in the Ranks Hard-Prest, and the Road Unknown" by Walt Whitman