Recitation Videos [1] [2] To see the National Finals Show, go to the National Finals webpage [3]! 2022 [4] Stephanie Omorotionmwan: "Black Sheroes" by El Jones [4] [5] Stephanie Omorotionmwan: "Two Guns in the Sky for Daniel Harris" by Raymond Antrobus [5] [6] Stephanie Omorotionmwan: "If Our Bodies Could Rust, We Would Be Falling Apart" by Billy-Ray Belcourt [6] [7] Al Gilbert: "Comfort" by Joshua Jennifer Espinoza [7] [8] Al Gilbert: "Someday I'll Love Ocean Vuong" by Ocean Vuong [8] [9] Al Gilbert: "One Art" by Elizabeth Bishop [9] [10] Bem Denga: "Tide" by Soraya Peerbaye [10] [11] Bem Denga: "Interesting People of Newfoundland" by John Ashbery [11] [12] Bem Denga: "Dulce et Decorum Est" by Wilfred Owen [12] [13] Nadine Berdous: "Richard Cory" by Edwin Arlington Robinson [13] [14] Amira Aouchiche: "Dear Diaspora Child" by Cicely Belle Blain [14] [15] Lauren Altomare: "Wolf Lake" by Elizabeth Bachinsky [15] 2021 [16] Al Gilbert: "AMERICA (I'M PUTTING MY QUEER SHOULDER TO THE WHEEL)" by John Elizabeth Stintzi [16] [17] Al Gilbert: "Men in the Gut" by Jason Purcell [17] [18] Al Gilbert: "Not Horses" by Natalie Shapero [18] [19] Thierney Dignadice "CONVERSION" by Megan Fernandes [19] [20] Thierney Dignadice "Illegalese: Floodgate Dub" by Wayde Compton [20] [21] Thierney Dignadice: "Two Guns In The Sky For Daniel Harris" by Raymond Antrobus [21] [22] Zara Smith: "If Our Bodies Could Rust, We Would Be Falling Apart" by Billy-Ray Belcourt [22] [23] Zara Smith: "My Brother at 3 A.M." by Natalie Diaz [23] [24] Zara Smith: "Wow! You’ve Changed" by Dina Del Bucchia [24] [25] Philip Nedelev: "When I Have Fears That I May Cease To Be" by John Keats [25] [26] Rachel Lyonnais-St-Martin: "Poem for My Body" by Ruth Daniell [26] [27] Sarah Hamdi "Illegalese: Floodgate Dub" by Wayde Compton [27] 2020 [28] Nawal Semir: "I Am the People, the Mob" [28] [29] Jenny Wang: "Two Guns in the Sky for Daniel Harris" by Raymond Antrobus [29] [30] Nahida Mohamadou: “To the Ladies” by Lady Mary Chudleigh [30] [31] Farah Elnakoury: “Poor Speaker” by Sonnet L'Abbé [31] [32] Safae Bizgarne: “We Wear the Mask” by Paul Laurence Dunbar [32] [33] Rena Liu: “What horror to awake at night” by Lorine Niedecker [33] [34] Rebecca Marchetti: “The New Experience” by Suzanne Buffam [34] [35] Nawal Semir: “Verso 3.1” by Dionne Brand [35] [36] Madlyn Woodruff: “anyone lived in a pretty how town” by e.e. cummings [36] [37] Kumar Hind: “Cowboy Story” by George Murray [37] [38] Bianca Sanchez Galvin: “Sonnet XXIX: When, in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes” by William Shakespeare [38] [39] Anisa Pirani: “Two Guns in the Sky for Daniel Harris” by Raymond Antrobus [39] [40] Joyce Chen: “If Our Bodies Could Rust, We Would Be Falling Apart” by Billy-Ray Belcourt [40] [41] Gia Krikellas: “Adam Father” by Méira Cook [41] [42] Divyan Karunakaran: “With the Dying of the Light” by Richard Harrison [42] [43] Anna Shi: “Someday I'll Love Ocean Vuong” by Ocean Vuong [43] [44] Stephanie Aboukhater: “Wow! You've Changed” by Dina Del Bucchia [44] 2019 [45] Catricia Hiebert: “War” by Lee Maracle [45] [46] Jenny Wang: “Poor Speaker” by Sonnet L’Abbé [46] [47] Ghada Charki: “The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter” by Ezra Pound [47] [48] Nina Thach: “My Brother at 3 A.M.” by Natalie Diaz [48] [49] Matthew Zhou: “Poem For Duncan Campbell Scott” by Armand Garnet Ruffo [49] [50] Catricia Hiebert: “somewhere i have never travelled” by e.e. cummings [50] [51] Troy Cheah: “River of Milk” by Kaveh Akbar [51] [52] Alexander Morin: “One Art” by Elizabeth Bishop [52] [53] Keagan Yap: “If Our Bodies Could Rust, We Would Be Falling Apart” by Billy-Ray Belcourt [53] [54] Berry Genge: “you aren’t going to like what i have to say” by Donato Mancini [54] [55] Nawal Semir: “Poor Speaker” by Sonnet L’Abbé [55] [56] Mackenzie Hutchinson: “grass” by Ward Maxwell [56] [57] Clara Sismondo: “Blackberrying” by Sylvia Plath [57] [58] Irene Zhang: “Full Metal Oji-Cree” by Joshua Whitehead [58] [59] Cyrena Fiel: “Gayatri” by Souvankham Thammavongsa [59] [60] William Zhang: “But I’m No One” by Weyman Chan [60] [61] Sophia Wilcott: “One Art” by Elizabeth Bishop [61] [62] Chandra Miller: “Where There’s a Wall” by Joy Kogawa [62] 2018 [63] Hamish Marissen-Clark: “Illegalese: Floodgate Dub” by Wayde Compton [63] [64] Gabrielle Nebrida-Pepin: “I Lost My Talk ” by Rita Joe [64] [65] Pujita Verma: “A History of Houses Built Out of Spite” by Chimwemwe Undi [65] [66] Brittany Huellas-Bruskiewicz: “Opus 75, Sestina in B-flat for the Glockenspiel” by Adam Sol [66] [67] John Wood: “My Meadow, My Twilight” by Carl Phillips [67] [68] Michelle Cheng: “Richard Cory” by Edwin Arlington Robinson [68] [69] Chloe Harris: “From thirsty” by Dionne Brand [69] [70] Anna Navarro: “Gayatri” by Souvankham Thammavongsa [70] [71] Sophia Chu: “Say the Names” by Al Purdy [71] [72] Carly Benson: “Application Form” by Phoebe Wang [72] [73] Jia Xin Chen: “These Poems, She Said” by Robert Bringhurst [73] [74] Laura Beth Neuman: “The Last Laugh” by Wilfred Owen [74] [75] Mary Wan: “From Chapter I” by Christian Bök [75] [76] Juliana Nunes: “Let the Ponies Out” by Marilyn Dumont [76] [77] Elizabeth Wong: “Cowboy Story” by George Murray [77] 2017 [78] The 2017 National Finals in 5 minutes [78] [79] 2017 MTL Team Regionals [79] [80] Luc Maurer: “From Red Doc>” by Anne Carson [80] [81] Alyssa Howard: “Fear of Snakes” by Lorna Crozier [81] [82] Charlotte Egan: “Chemo Side Effects: Memory” by Elise Partridge [82] [83] Ji Thevenard: “Hotel Centrale, Rotterdam” by Daniel David Moses [83] [84] Chloe Harris: “Opus 75, Sestina in B-flat for the Glockenspiel” by Adam Sol [84] [85] Delphine Durand-Roy: “Tide” by Soraya Peerbaye [85] [86] Hannah Halpern: “world shapers” by Joanne Arnott [86] [87] Tsion Berie: “At the Centre” by Afua Cooper [87] [88] Katie Beale: “Echolalia” by Ian Williams [88] [89] Sujood Thraya: “Good Day Villanelle” by Damian Rogers [89] [90] Stephen Chankov: “From Chapter I” by Christian Bök [90] [91] Daniel Gallagher: “Invictus” by William Ernest Henley [91] [92] Marissa Prado: “Tide” by Soraya Peerbaye [92] [93] David White: “A Supermarket in California” by Allen Ginsberg [93] [94] Elizabeth Wong: “Piling Blood” by Al Purdy [94] 2016 [95] Hannah Goodridge: “Dulce et Decorum Est” by Wilfred Owen [95] [96] Nebou N’diaye: “i am graffiti” by Leanne Simpson [96] [97] Enzo Campa: “Echolalia” by Ian Williams [97] [98] Marie Foolchand: “I am the People, the Mob” by Carl Sandburg [98] [99] Venus Vafa: “Alone”, Edgar Allan Poe [99] [100] Tiffany Toussaint: “Walking Both Sides of an Invisible Border”, Alootook Ipellie [100] [101] Timothy Tkachenko: “Dulce et Decorum Est”, Wilfred Owen [101] [102] Ji Thevenard: “mixed tape”, Katherena Vermette [102] [103] Rylee Pennell: “Self-Portrait”, Robert Creeley [103] [104] Laura Murdoch: “At the Centre”, Afua Cooper [104] [105] Erin Mugford: “Sometimes a Voice (1)”, Don McKay [105] [106] Mallory Moore: “Common Magic”, Bronwen Wallace [106] [107] Abbi Melanson: “Solitude”, Ella Wheeler Wilcox [107] [108] Caitlin MacPhail: “Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802”, William Wordsworth [108] [109] Katie Lawrence: “Thoughtless Cruelty”, Charles Lamb [109] [110] Charlotte Faye Hiscock: “In Flanders Fields”, John McCrae [110] [111] Paolo M. Hermogenes: “11. Headwinds”, Tomasz Rózycki [111] [112] Rose Henbest: “i am graffiti”, Leanne Simpson [112] [113] Aicha Amettova: “I’ve Tasted My Blood”, Milton Acorn [113] [114] Glory Chima: “Walking Both Sides of an Invisible Border”, Alootook Ipellie [114] 2015 [115] Ayo Akinfenwa: “Fear of Snakes” by Lorna Crozier [115] [116] Olivia Perry: “From Red Doc>” by Anne Carson [116] [117] Marie Foolchand: “These Poems, She Said” by Robert Bringhurst [117] [118] Phoenix Sandrock: “Fire Watch” by Ken Babstock [118] [119] Mattis Savard-Verhoeven: “I am the People, the Mob” by Carl Sandburg [119] [120] Emilie Millon: “Echolalia” by Ian Williams [120] [121] Margaux Hunter-Moffat: “Introduction to Poetry” by Billy Collins [121] [122] Tiffany Toussaint: “Mean Drunk Poem” by Sharon Thesen [122] [123] Roslin Olsthoorn Grant: “Annabel Lee” by Edgar Allen Poe [123] [124] Jeremy Mallette: “Shall earth no more inspire thee” by Emily Brontë [124] [125] Breagh Wadden: “the knowing” by Connie Fife [125] [126] Pauline Eudes: “Echolalia” by Ian Williams [126] [127] Elizabeth Vaz: “Insomnia” by Kate Hall [127] [128] Kaylan Wang: “Grief” by Elizabeth Barrett Browning [128] [129] Cyan Patterson: “These Poems, She Said” by Robert Bringhurst [129] [130] Erin Mugford: “The Dead” by Charles Heavysege [130] [131] Pamela Lazzara: “At the Centre” by Afua Cooper [131] [132] Rose Henbest: “These Poems, She Said” by Robert Bringhurst [132] [133] Waynes Manalang: “Jack Would Speak Through the Imperfect Medium of Alice” by Alice Notley [133] [134] Maddy Wieke: “Mean Drunk Poem” by Sharon Thesen [134] [135] Kailen Regehr: “From thirsty” by Dionne Brand [135] [136] Sabrina Bento: “400: Coming Home” by Dennis Lee [136] [137] Peirce Dickson: “Interesting People of Newfoundland” by John Ashbery [137] 2014 [138] Marianne Verville : “Fire and Ice” by Robert Frost [138] [139] Leo Chang: “Dog Boy” by Matthew Rohrer [139] [140] Ian Hogeboom-Burr: “dont worry yr hair” by bill bissett [140] [141] Roan Shankaruk: “Wolf Lake” by Elizabeth Bachinsky [141] [142] Ian Hogeboom-Burr: “Sweet Like a Crow” by Michael Ondaatje [142] [143] Leo Chang: “Constantly Risking Absurdity (#15)” by Lawrence Ferlinghetti [143] [144] Kelsi James: “I Am” by John Clare [144] [145] Roan Shankaruk: “Dog Boy” by Matthew Rohrer [145] [146] Daniel Milton: “These Poems, She Said” by Robert Bringhurst [146] [147] Peirce Dickson: “The Listeners” by Walter De La Mare [147] [148] Sai Kolla: “O Captain! My Captain!” by Walt Whitman [148] [149] Olivia Perry: “Plenty” by Kevin Connolly [149] [150] Tiffany Toussaint: “War” by Lee Maracle [150] [151] Andrea Rodriguez-Marin: “Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Goldfishes” by Thomas Gray [151] 2013 [152] Elisabeth Sohier-Poirier: “Ozymandias” by Percy Bysshe Shelley [152] [153] Caitlin Botros: “A Psalm of Life” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow [153] [154] Dede Akolo: “I felt a Funeral in my Brain” by Emily Dickinson [154] [155] Khalil Mair: “Wolf Lake” by Elizabeth Bachinsky [155] [156] Kyla Kane: “Chicago” by Carl Sandburg [156] 2012 [157] Sydney Gilchrist: “Plenty” by Kevin Connolly [157] [158] Alexander Gagliano: “From Chapter I” by Christian Bök [158] [159] Mary Jane Egan: “Revenge” by Letitia Elizabeth Landon [159] [160] Daniela Galdamez: “Poetry” by Marianne Moore [160] [161] Sadie Anne Hirschfield: “Jack Would Speak Through the Imperfect Medium of Alice” by Alice Notley [161] [162] Jeff Hunt: “A Glass Tube Ecstasy” by Jerome Rothenberg [162] [163] Sydney Gilchrist: “Beat! Beat! Drums!” by Walt Whitman [163] [164] Alexander Gagliano: “Journey of the Magi” by T. S. Eliot [164] 2011 [165] Jonathan Welstead: “Preludes” by T. S. Eliot [165] [166] Spencer Slaney: “Jabberwocky” by Lewis Carroll [166] [167] Spencer Slaney: “Spleen” by Charles Baudelaire [167] [168] Jonathan Welstead: “The Windhover” by Gerard Manley Hopkins [168] [169] Anna Jiang: “Journey of the Magi” by T. S. Eliot. [169] [170] Amelia Druskis: “La Belle Dame Sans Merci” by John Keats [170] [171] Suzanna Alsayed: “It Couldn’t Be Done” by Edgar Albert Guest [171] [172] Victoria Campbell: “I Am the People, the Mob” by Carl Sandburg [172] [173] Brogan Carruthers: “Confessions” by Robert Browning [173] [174] Estera Musiala: “Chicago” by Carl Sandburg [174] [175] Mélodie Cyr: “Solitude” by Ella Wheeler Wilcox [175] [176] David Castillo: “The Charge of the Light Brigade” by Alfred Lord Tennyson [176] [177] Malvika Chowdry: “Gitanjali 35” by Rabindranath Tagore [177] [178] Lily MacLeod: “I Think I Should Have Loved You Presently” by Edna St. Vincent Millay [178] [179] Daniya Gulzar: “Insomnia”, Kate Hall [179] [180] Anna Jiang: “L’esprit et l’eau” by Paul Claudel [180]