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Here is a way to inspire students to put emotion and thought into their poetry recitation:

The speaker is a high school student. She won an award in the 2008 Poetry Outloud contest for her recitation.

Here is the link to hear her poetry recitation: [link removed]

Here is a link to learn more about the annual contest for high school students. It is from NPR: [link removed]

Here is a link to the Poetry Outloud program: [link removed]

Here is the poem:

Frederick Douglass by Robert Hayden

When it is finally ours, this freedom, this liberty, this beautiful and terrible thing, needful to man as air, usable as earth; when it belongs at last to all, when it is truly instinct, brain matter, diastole, systole, reflex action; when it is finally won; when it is more than the gaudy mumbo jumbo of politicians: this man, this Douglass, this former slave, this Negro beaten to his knees, exiled, visioning a world where none is lonely...See More


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