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2019 National Finals Poems
The finals of the National Poetry Recitation Contest will take place in Yerevan at 11 am on Saturday May 4th at the Manoogian Auditorium of AUA. Transportation for the event will be provided for the contestants and their teachers who accompany them. Contestants do not need to register again. They will be contacted by our team so we can be sure of each poem/speech selection. Please review our rules again and like us on Facebook. You can listen to recordings of the poems, recited by native English speakers here. You can download a pdf of all poems and speeches here.
7th Form
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"Risk" by Anais Nin
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"Evolution" by John Bannister Tabb
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"Caterpillar" by Christina Rossetti
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"Dreams" by Langston Hughes
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Speech by William Saroyan
8th Form
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"Changing of the Seasons" by Shel Silverstein
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"Rain" by Kazim Ali
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"Robo" by Nick Carbo
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"Theories of Space and Time" by Natasha Tretheway
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Speech by Charlie Chaplin
9th Form
10th Form
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"I'm a fool to love you" by Cornelius Eady
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"My Therapist Wants to Know about My Relationship to Work" by Tiana Clark
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"Ode to Gossips" by Safia Elhillo
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"We Lived Happily During the War" by Ilya Kaminsky
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Speech by Oprah Winfrey
11th Form
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"A Brief for the Defense" by Jack Gilbert
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"Both Sides Now" by Joni Mitchell
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"Metamorphosis" by Jenny Xie
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"The End and the Beginning" by Wislawa Szymborska
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Speech by the Dalai Lama
12th Form
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"Burning the Old Year" by Naomi Shihab Nye
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"For my Grandmother Knitting" by Liz Lochhead
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"Romance" by W.J. Turner
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"The Men" by BH Fairchild
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Speech by Nikol Pashinyan
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