Recitation Videos

2019

Catricia Hiebert: “War” by Lee Maracle	Jenny Wang: “Poor Speaker” by Sonnet L’Abbé	Ghada Charki: “The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter” by Ezra Pound
Nina Thach: “My Brother at 3 A.M.” by Natalie Diaz	Matthew Zhou: “Poem For Duncan Campbell Scott” by Armand Garnet Ruffo	Catricia Hiebert: “somewhere i have never travelled” by e.e. cummings
Troy Cheah: “River of Milk” by Kaveh Akbar	Alexander Morin: “One Art” by Elizabeth Bishop	Keagan Yap: “If Our Bodies Could Rust, We Would Be Falling Apart” by Billy-Ray Belcourt
Berry Genge: “you aren’t going to like what i have to say” by Donato Mancini	Nawal Semir: “Poor Speaker” by Sonnet L’Abbé	Mackenzie Hutchinson: “grass” by Ward Maxwell
Clara Sismondo: “Blackberrying” by Sylvia Plath	Irene Zhang: “Full Metal Oji-Cree” by Joshua Whitehead	Cyrena Fiel: “Gayatri” by Souvankham Thammavongsa
William Zhang: “But I’m No One” by Weyman Chan	Sophia Wilcott: “One Art” by Elizabeth Bishop	Chandra Miller: “Where There’s a Wall” by Joy Kogawa

2018

Hamish Marissen-Clark: “Illegalese: Floodgate Dub” by Wayde Compton	Gabrielle Nebrida-Pepin: “I Lost My Talk ” by Rita Joe	Pujita Verma: “A History of Houses Built Out of Spite” by Chimwemwe Undi
Brittany Huellas-Bruskiewicz: “Opus 75, Sestina in B-flat for the Glockenspiel” by Adam Sol	John Wood: “My Meadow, My Twilight” by Carl Phillips	Michelle Cheng: “Richard Cory” by Edwin Arlington Robinson
Chloe Harris: “From thirsty” by Dionne Brand	Anna Navarro: “Gayatri” by Souvankham Thammavongsa	Sophia Chu: “Say the Names” by Al Purdy
Carly Benson: “Application Form” by Phoebe Wang	Jia Xin Chen: “These Poems, She Said” by Robert Bringhurst	Laura Beth Neuman: “The Last Laugh” by Wilfred Owen
Mary Wan: “From Chapter I” by Christian Bök	Juliana Nunes: “Let the Ponies Out” by Marilyn Dumont	Elizabeth Wong: “Cowboy Story” by George Murray

2017

The 2017 National Finals in 5 minutes	2017 MTL Team Regionals	Luc Maurer: “From Red Doc>” by Anne Carson
Alyssa Howard: “Fear of Snakes” by Lorna Crozier	Charlotte Egan: “Chemo Side Effects: Memory” by Elise Partridge	Ji Thevenard: “Hotel Centrale, Rotterdam” by Daniel David Moses
Chloe Harris: “Opus 75, Sestina in B-flat for the Glockenspiel” by Adam Sol	Delphine Durand-Roy: “Tide” by Soraya Peerbaye	Hannah Halpern: “world shapers” by Joanne Arnott
Tsion Berie: “At the Centre” by Afua Cooper	Katie Beale: “Echolalia” by Ian Williams	Sujood Thraya: “Good Day Villanelle” by Damian Rogers
Stephen Chankov: “From Chapter I” by Christian Bök	Daniel Gallagher: “Invictus” by William Ernest Henley	Marissa Prado: “Tide” by Soraya Peerbaye
David White: “A Supermarket in California” by Allen Ginsberg	Elizabeth Wong: “Piling Blood” by Al Purdy

2016

Hannah Goodridge: “Dulce et Decorum Est” by Wilfred Owen	Nebou N’diaye: “i am graffiti” by Leanne Simpson	Enzo Campa: “Echolalia” by Ian Williams
Marie Foolchand: “I am the People, the Mob” by Carl Sandburg	Venus Vafa: “Alone”, Edgar Allan Poe	Tiffany Toussaint: “Walking Both Sides of an Invisible Border”, Alootook Ipellie
Timothy Tkachenko: “Dulce et Decorum Est”, Wilfred Owen	Ji Thevenard: “mixed tape”, Katherena Vermette	Rylee Pennell: “Self-Portrait”, Robert Creeley
Laura Murdoch: “At the Centre”, Afua Cooper	Erin Mugford: “Sometimes a Voice (1)”, Don McKay	Mallory Moore: “Common Magic”, Bronwen Wallace
Abbi Melanson: “Solitude”, Ella Wheeler Wilcox	Caitlin MacPhail: “Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802”, William Wordsworth	Katie Lawrence: “Thoughtless Cruelty”, Charles Lamb
Charlotte Faye Hiscock: “In Flanders Fields”, John McCrae	Paolo M. Hermogenes: “11. Headwinds”, Tomasz Rózycki	Rose Henbest: “i am graffiti”, Leanne Simpson
Aicha Amettova: “I’ve Tasted My Blood”, Milton Acorn	Glory Chima: “Walking Both Sides of an Invisible Border”, Alootook Ipellie

2015

Ayo Akinfenwa: “Fear of Snakes” by Lorna Crozier	Olivia Perry: “From Red Doc>” by Anne Carson	Marie Foolchand: “These Poems, She Said” by Robert Bringhurst
Kiera Sandrock: “Fire Watch” by Ken Babstock	Mattis Savard-Verhoeven: “I am the People, the Mob” by Carl Sandburg	Emilie Millon: “Echolalia” by Ian Williams
Margaux Hunter-Moffat: “Introduction to Poetry” by Billy Collins	Tiffany Toussaint: “Mean Drunk Poem” by Sharon Thesen	Roslin Olsthoorn Grant: “Annabel Lee” by Edgar Allen Poe
Jeremy Mallette: “Shall earth no more inspire thee” by Emily Brontë	Breagh Wadden: “the knowing” by Connie Fife	Pauline Eudes: “Echolalia” by Ian Williams
Elizabeth Vaz: “Insomnia” by Kate Hall	Kaylan Wang: “Grief” by Elizabeth Barrett Browning	Cyan Patterson: “These Poems, She Said” by Robert Bringhurst
Erin Mugford: “The Dead” by Charles Heavysege	Pamela Lazzara: “At the Centre” by Afua Cooper	Rose Henbest: “These Poems, She Said” by Robert Bringhurst
Waynes Manalang: “Jack Would Speak Through the Imperfect Medium of Alice” by Alice Notley	Maddy Wieke: “Mean Drunk Poem” by Sharon Thesen	Kailen Regehr: “From thirsty” by Dionne Brand
Sabrina Bento: “400: Coming Home” by Dennis Lee	Peirce Dickson: “Interesting People of Newfoundland” by John Ashbery

2014

Marianne Verville : “Fire and Ice” by Robert Frost	Leo Chang: “Dog Boy” by Matthew Rohrer	Ian Hogeboom-Burr: “dont worry yr hair” by bill bissett
Roan Shankaruk: “Wolf Lake” by Elizabeth Bachinsky	Ian Hogeboom-Burr: “Sweet Like a Crow” by Michael Ondaatje	Leo Chang: “Constantly Risking Absurdity (#15)” by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Kelsi James: “I Am” by John Clare	Roan Shankaruk: “Dog Boy” by Matthew Rohrer	Daniel Milton: “These Poems, She Said” by Robert Bringhurst
Peirce Dickson: “The Listeners” by Walter De La Mare	Sai Kolla: “O Captain! My Captain!” by Walt Whitman	Olivia Perry: “Plenty” by Kevin Connolly
Tiffany Toussaint: “War” by Lee Maracle	Andrea Rodriguez-Marin: “Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Goldfishes” by Thomas Gray

2013

Elisabeth Sohier-Poirier: “Ozymandias” by Percy Bysshe Shelley	Caitlin Botros: “A Psalm of Life” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	Dede Akolo: “I felt a Funeral in my Brain” by Emily Dickinson
Khalil Mair: “Wolf Lake” by Elizabeth Bachinsky	Kyla Kane: “Chicago” by Carl Sandburg

2012

Sydney Gilchrist: “Plenty” by Kevin Connolly	Alexander Gagliano: “From Chapter I” by Christian Bök	Mary Jane Egan: “Revenge” by Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Daniela Galdamez: “Poetry” by Marianne Moore	Sadie Anne Hirschfield: “Jack Would Speak Through the Imperfect Medium of Alice” by Alice Notley	Jeff Hunt: “A Glass Tube Ecstasy” by Jerome Rothenberg
Sydney Gilchrist: “Beat! Beat! Drums!” by Walt Whitman	Alexander Gagliano: “Journey of the Magi” by T. S. Eliot

2011

Jonathan Welstead: “Preludes” by T. S. Eliot	Spencer Slaney: “Jabberwocky” by Lewis Carroll	Spencer Slaney: “Spleen” by Charles Baudelaire
Jonathan Welstead: “The Windhover” by Gerard Manley Hopkins	Anna Jiang: “Journey of the Magi” by T. S. Eliot.	Amelia Druskis: “La Belle Dame Sans Merci” by John Keats
Suzanna Alsayed: “It Couldn’t Be Done” by Edgar Albert Guest	Victoria Campbell: “I Am the People, the Mob” by Carl Sandburg	Brogan Carruthers: “Confessions” by Robert Browning
Estera Musiala: “Chicago” by Carl Sandburg	Mélodie Cyr: “Solitude” by Ella Wheeler Wilcox	David Castillo: “The Charge of the Light Brigade” by Alfred Lord Tennyson
Malvika Chowdry: “Gitanjali 35” by Rabindranath Tagore	Lily MacLeod: “I Think I Should Have Loved You Presently” by Edna St. Vincent Millay

Daniya Gulzar: “Insomnia”, Kate Hall

Anna Jiang: “L’esprit et l’eau” by Paul Claudel