“We aren’t serious when we’re seventeen…” In this video, Samara Elán Huggins, the 2017 Poetry Out Loud National Champion from Georgia, recites “Novel” by Arthur Rimbaud, translated from the French by Wallace Fowlie. Anndee Hochman writes about Poetry Out Loud, a national recitation competition for high school students, in “The Poem Chooses You” in the March/April issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
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