Sherry Chandler

Kentucky’s Poetry Out Loud Finalist

Last Friday, taking youse guys on A Tour of My Blogroll, I featured Sandra Beasley’s reflections on this year’s Poetry Out Loud national finals and smiled a bit at the notion of a Kentucky boy from rural Trimble County taking a stab at Langston Hughes’s “Weary Blues,” a poem from both a time and place very alien to him.

Looks like I get to smile out of the other side of my mouth now. Dean Muir’s performance was good enough to get him into those national finals. Only twelve finalists were chosen.

So Dean did all right for himself and more power to him!

He’s pictured here performing at the Kentucky Writers’ Day Celebration.

Meanwhile, taking some umbrage at my statement that Poetry Out Loud may be more performance than poetry, a correspondent has written to chide me gently thus:

…a good “theater” (or speech team) coach would be emphasizing the student’s understanding of the poem. It is what makes the difference between “acting at acting” and truly “interpreting.”

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4. Poetry Out Loud State Finals
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