Serious Interpretation - Poetry
 
Round One
Judge I - Ellora Kleven	10:15 AM	Room - E202	Room Manager: Thom Amundson

Order	Speaker	School/Team	Selection/Author
 1.	Patricia Reeves	Apple Valley	Home Girls: A Collection of Black Feminist Poems by Donna Kate Rushin; Edited by Barbara Smith
 2.	Quinn Vatland	Eden Prairie	Things to Say to a Deadman by Jane Yolen
 3.	Mary Clare DuRocher	Northfield	Thirst by T.S. Elliot; Stevie Smith; Shelly Wagner
 4.	Hailey Woolverton	Duluth Denfeld	The Body is not an Aplolgy by Todd Colby & Eve Ensler
 5.	Hallal Tamene	Irondale	A Program of Poetry by Nikki Giovanni; Dudley Randall and Langston Hughes by Nikki Giovanni; Dudley Randall; Langston Hughes
 6.	Anna Kate Nolan	Mankato West	Speak With Conviction by Margaret Atwood; Anne Sexton; and Taylor Mali
 
Judge II - Henry Hebert	10:15 AM	Room - E204	Room Manager: Bonnie Bleichner

Order	Speaker	School/Team	Selection/Author
 1.	Anna Landis	Benilde-St. Margaret's	Visions of War: Dreams of Peace by Lynda Van Devanter & John A. Furey
 2.	Clara Linehan	Chisago Lakes Area	I Do by Andrea Gibson
 3.	Sarah Rice	Moorhead	The Diner: A Program of Poetry by Charles Bukowski; Jan Beatty; Danny Sherrard
 4.	Erin Chappuis	Eagan	A Nod to the Classics by Andrew Pants; Lynda Hull; Lynn Emanuel
 5.	Carley Abbot	Roseville Area	Aging Gracefully by Marge Piercy; Andrea Budy; Elizabeth Jennings
 6.	Ali Dorschner	Chanhassen	Counting Sheep by Erin Schober; Juliana Spahr; Margaret Atwood and Mark Doty
 
Judge III - Roxy Janke	10:15 AM	Room - E206	Room Manager: Ivanna Buchite

Order	Speaker	School/Team	Selection/Author
 1.	Kathryn Davis	Centennial	The Blue Dress by Reginald Gibbons
 2.	Amber Atkinson	Chaska	Emotional Creatur by D.H. Lawrence; Gerald Manley Hopkins; Suzan Cabanas and Eve Ensler
 3.	Yemi Ajagbe	Woodbury	The Father by Sharon Olds
 4.	Taylor Heitman	Farmington	For Eli by Andrea Gibson
 5.	Matt Wisenden	Moorhead	You Have My Attention: A Program of Poetry by Rafael Casal and James P. Wagner
 6.	Kirby Crow	Minnetonka	Persephae the Wonderer; Myth of Devotion; Myth of Innocence by Loise Gluck
 
Judge IV - Jody Saxton-West	10:15 AM	Room - E208	Room Manager: Julie Brugman

Order	Speaker	School/Team	Selection/Author
 1.	Lars Espe	Woodbury	The Moments Equation by Vern Rutsala
 2.	Nyambura Muiruri	Lakeville North	Blues Woman by Wanda Coleman
 3.	Madelyn Gunderson	Cambridge-Isanti	Stop Pretending by Sonya Somes
 4.	Anna Ghebregzi	Eastview	Dear Mr. President (Poetry Program) by Alix Olson
 5.	David Young-Stephens	Centennial	How to Watch Your Brother Die by Michael Lassell
 6.	Alexis Roy	Little Falls	Conceiving of Me and Excisions of the Flesh: A Poetry Program by Kristen Herbert and Kathy Lowenberg
 

Serious Interpretation - Poetry

Round Two
Judge I - Margaret Kitterman		11:45 AM
Location - E202
Room Manager	Thom Amundson

Order	Speaker
 1.	Taylor Heitman
 2.	David Young-Stephens
 3.	Lars Espe
 4.	Matt Wisenden
 5.	Erin Chappuis
 6.	Quinn Vatland

Judge II - Joann Biederwolf		11:45 AM
Location - E204
Room Manager	Bonnie Bleichner

Order	Speaker
 1.	Anna Ghebregzi
 2.	Hallal Tamene
 3.	Nyambura Muiruri
 4.	Carley Abbot
 5.	Hailey Woolverton
 6.	Amber Atkinson

Judge III - Cal VandeHoef		11:45 AM
Location - E206
Room Manager	Ivanna Buchite

Order	Speaker
 1.	Clara Linehan
 2.	Anna Kate Nolan
 3.	Patricia Reeves
 4.	Alexis Roy
 5.	Kathryn Davis
 6.	Anna Landis

Judge IV - Pam Cady-Wycoff		11:45 AM
Location - E208
Room Manager	Julie Brugman

Order	Speaker
 1.	Ali Dorschner
 2.	Sarah Rice
 3.	Kirby Crow
 4.	Mary Clare DuRocher
 5.	Madelyn Gunderson
 6.	Yemi Ajagbe

Round Three
Judge I - Joyce Hebert		1:15 PM
Location - E202
Room Manager	Thom Amundson

Order	Speaker
 1.	Alexis Roy
 2.	Hailey Woolverton
 3.	Kathryn Davis
 4.	Ali Dorschner
 5.	Lars Espe
 6.	Taylor Heitman

Judge II - Patricia Neuschwander		1:15 PM
Location - E204
Room Manager	Bonnie Bleichner

Order	Speaker
 1.	Kirby Crow
 2.	Carley Abbot
 3.	David Young-Stephens
 4.	Amber Atkinson
 5.	Sarah Rice
 6.	Patricia Reeves

Judge III - Rachael Evenson		1:15 PM
Location - E206
Room Manager	Ivanna Buchite

Order	Speaker
 1.	Yemi Ajagbe
 2.	Erin Chappuis
 3.	Anna Kate Nolan
 4.	Quinn Vatland
 5.	Clara Linehan
 6.	Nyambura Muiruri

Judge IV - Cheryl Neidt		1:15 PM
Location - E208
Room Manager	Julie Brugman

Order	Speaker
 1.	Madelyn Gunderson
 2.	Matt Wisenden
 3.	Hallal Tamene
 4.	Anna Landis
 5.	Mary Clare DuRocher
 6.	Anna Ghebregzi

FINALS	3:30 PM	Location - E208	Room Manager - Julie Brugman
Judges:
Jack Palmer
Bonnie Spohn-Schmaltz
Michael Frickstead