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Contestant Poems

Emily Astorian – Granville High School
	“Forgetfulness” by Billy Collins
	“Catch a Little Rhyme” by Eve Merriam
	“Advice to a Prophet” by Richard Wilbur
Jackson Hille – Columbus Alternative High School
	“A Satirical Elegy on the Death of a Late Famous General” by Jonathan Swift
	“Altruism” by Molly Peacock
	“Forgetfulness” by Billy Collins
Lee Horton – Mount Gilead High School
	“Eagle Poem” by Joy Harjo
	“Famous” by Naomi Shihab Nye
	“Ways of Talking” by Ha Jin
Robert Jones – Eastmoor Academy High School
	“The Negro Speaks of Rivers” by Langston Hughes
	“Broken Promises” by David Kirby
	“To My Mother” by Wendell Berry
Jon Lamotte – Bishop Hartley High School
	“Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening” by Robert Frost
	“‘Hope’ is the thing with feathers—” by Emily Dickinson
	“Trees” by Joyce Kilmer
Casey Osman – Westland High School
	“Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night” by Dylan Thomas
	“We Wear the Mask” by Paul Laurence Dunbar
	“Let it Be Forgotten” by Sarah Teasdale
Meredith Smith – Thomas Worthington High School
	“Still I Rise” by Maya Angelou
	“Beautiful Black Men” by Nikki Giovonni
	“Bilingual/Bilingue” by Rhina P. Espaillat