Leave your feedback Share Copy URL https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/student-competition-spurs-interest-in-poetry Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Tumblr Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Transcript Students compete in National Poetry Out Loud, the first annual poetry recitation contest. Jeffrey Brown reports. Read the Full Transcript Notice: Transcripts are machine and human generated and lightly edited for accuracy. They may contain errors. JEFFREY BROWN: This isn't "American Idol." It's a poetry competition. High school students from all 50 states and the District of Columbia battling it out in the first Poetry Out Loud National Recitation Contest. STUDENT POET: I acknowledge my status as a stranger. JEFFREY BROWN: It's a collaboration of the National Endowment for the Arts, state arts agencies, and the Poetry Foundation, the NewsHour's partner in our poetry project. ANNOUNCER: Our first prize winner, the champion of Poetry Out Loud…