“I feel like when people put their own voice into someone else’s words, it really brings it to life.”
The Poetry Out Loud finals (POL), NVOT’s tenth annual poetry-reciting competition, took place on Tuesday, December 17. The Lance interviewed this year’s contestants backstage while the competition was taking place.
Click on the gallery below to hear about each of the contestants’ thoughts on the event, and poetry as a whole:
Senior Tori Iacobucci: “This is my second POL. My first poem is about the rain, and it is talking about the rain in a very amazed tone of voice, so it shows that the rain is a beautiful thing and not a terrible thing like everyone says it is. My second poem is about a relationship where the man isn’t as in as he should be, and he only wants the good parts and not the hard parts. It’s talking about how it’s not fair to the girl.
I was nervous, but after the first performance I just have adrenaline. Poetry is very underrated. Everybody loves music but no one likes music without the music. I feel like POL is a great way to show people that poetry isn’t always depressing and sometimes it’s really entertaining. I feel like when people put their own voice into someone else’s words, it really brings it to life.”