McIntosh students competed in a school-wide Poetry Out Loud competition on Dec. 9. The students competing were the individual winners in their English classes. All grades competed, reciting a variety of poems from www.poetryoutloud.org.

The overall winner of the school-level competition was freshman Caroline Cameron from Mrs. Bruschetti’s English class. She recited the poem “Caged Bird” by Maya Angelou.

The full list of participants, their poems, and classes were as follows:

Nichole Baker – “Famous” by Naomi Shihab Nye (Delfosse)

Laura Callan – “Echo” by Daryl Hine (Delfosse)

Caroline Cameron – “Caged Bird” by Maya Angelou (Bruschetti)

Genevieve Chan – “Very Large Moth” by Craig Arnold (Kearney)

Kayla Cookenour – “Self-Employed” by David Ignatow (Bruschetti)

Maddie Corley – “Time Does Not Bring Relief” by Edna St. Vincent Millay (Owen)

Samuel Ellis – “The True Blue American” by Delmore Schwartz (Bruschetti)

Aurora Gallegos-Sanchez – “The Albatross” by Kate Bass (Abel)

Sahil Gaulani – “Momma Said” by Calvin Forbes (Faubel)

Kimberly Gonzalez – “The Obligation to be Happy”  by Linda Pastan (Thibadeau)

Rebecca Hamilton – “Broken Promises” by David Kirby  (Carman)

Cammie Koontz – “Pity the Beautiful” by Dana Gioia (Edwards)

Josh Krivanek – “Advice to a Prophet” by Richard Wilbur (Bruschetti)

Gianna Leonard – “After a Rainstorm” by Robert Wrigley (Knight)

Madeline Luedecke – “Awakening in New York” by Maya Angelou (Delfosse)

Mikeila McQueston – “For the young who want to” by Marge Piercy (Kearney)

Imane Mokri – “It Couldn’t Be Done” by Edgar Albert Guest (Abel)

Abby Owen -“Ode to the Midwest” by Kevin Young  (Lakly)

Madeline Poling -“Blackberrying” by Sylvia Plath  (Lakly)

Sophie Roggermeier -“I heard a fly buzz – when I died-” by E. Dickinson (Walls)

Vyom Shah –  “The Old Liberators” by Robert Hedin (Thibadeau)

Carson Silbert – “Baudelaire” by Delmore Schwartz (Carman)

Isabella Skonberg – “Beautiful Wreckage” by W.D. Ehrhart (Delfosse)

Alex Tchaykov – “The Death of Allegory” by Billy Collins (Lakly)

Douglas Thomas – “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” by Langston Hughes (Delfosse)

Carly Triana – “The Charge of the Light Brigade” by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Carman)

Marcella Vallejo – “She Walks in Beauty”  by George Gordon, Lord Byron (Edwards)

Madison Warren -“The Charge of the Light Brigade” by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Lakly)

Morgan Wiese – “Broken Promises” by David Kirby (Thibadeau)

Alexander Wilson – “To Helen” by Edgar Allan Poe (Owen)

Brooke Wilson – “Testimonial” by Rita Dove (Owen)

Joie Zhou – “The Lamb” by Linda Gregg (Walls)