Title
NEA Poetry Out Loud: 2018 National Finals Competition
Agencies
National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)
Description
Through this Program Solicitation, the National Endowment for the Arts seeks a Cooperator to produce and administer the 2018 Poetry Out Loud National Finals competition to take place April 23-25, 2018 in Washington, DC.
The National Finals are the culmination of the nationwide Poetry Out Loud (POL) program that encourages more than 365,000 high school students each year to learn about classic and contemporary poetry through memorization and performance. Students select, memorize, and recite poems from an anthology and compete for the title of National Poetry Out Loud Champion. Through a pyramid structure competition, winners advance from classroom recitation contests to school-wide competitions, then to the state competitions and, ultimately, to the National Finals. One student from every state, the District of Columbia, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rico travel to the National Finals to compete for the national championship.
Poetry Out Loud is supported by many partners. The National Endowment for the Arts and the Poetry Foundation support the day-to-day administration of the program, create educational materials, and fund awards for both state and national finals. State arts agencies facilitate the implementation of the program in high schools nationwide and organize state competitions during the school year. The Cooperator selected through this Program Solicitation will work with the National Endowment for the Arts and the Poetry Foundation to produce the National Finals competition and coordinate other aspects of the program.
More Information
https://www.arts.gov/sites/default/files/Poetry-Out-Loud-with-Instructions-Sept2016.pdf
Submission Limits
An organization may submit only one proposal under this program solicitation.
Deadlines
Internal Notice of Intent |
Oct 13, 2016 |
Notification of Internal Competition |
Oct 14, 2016 |
Internal Pre-proposal |
Oct 31, 2016 |
Results of Internal Competition |
Nov 4, 2016 |
Agency Notice of Intent/Pre-proposal |
N/A |
Agency Proposal |
Jan 5, 2017
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