For the third year, in 2024, the Rural Oklahoma Museum hosted a regional contest for Poetry Out Loud in the Northeast Oklahoma area. Any 9th-12th grade student in the NE OK region whose school does not conduct the program can participate through ROMP. Home-schooled students in the region can also participate.
Poetry Out Loud is a wonderful program that encourages teenagers to find poems that have meaning for them, learn them by heart, and perform them in competition. The poems are all selected from the Poetry Out Loud anthology and website.
The winner of the 2024 contest for the 2nd year in a row was Jamie Smothers, Oologah High School. She will be competing in the state competition in Edmond in March.
In 2023, ROMP’s regional winner Jamie Smothers won Runner-Up at the state competition!
2023 Winner: Jamie Smothers, Oologah High School
2022 Winners
The winner of our contest, Dallas Green, Oologah High School, went to the state contest on March 8, 2022, in Edmond. The national competition was April 25-27, 2022, in Washington, D.C.
Read more about the program and the poems at Poetry Out Loud. ROMP will sponsor this contest yearly.