Breaking News for 2012:  After careful consideration of feedback from CT-COLT members, the Executive Board has decided to treat the 2012 Poetry Contest as a "crossover year"  with reference to our piloted slates of poems.  Accordingly, members may either avail themselves of the new slates chosen by our experts (see below), OR, as in the past, have students prepare poems that are already part of their curricula.  By our 2013 contest, however, we shall have completed the transition to an expanded set of slates. (Details of how to contribute to this expanded initiative will be available later this Spring.)

If you plan to use your own selections,  electronic copies must be submitted by the Registration Deadline of February 17, 2012 to MaryLouise Ennis, Chair of Poetry Judges. These poems, which cannot appear in slates of other levels,  will then be uploaded to our judges' website.  Please send PDFs or files in MS Word or in Pages (no WordPerfect): 

1. Include one poem per page per language level
2. Number the lines:  10-20 for Middle School 1, 2, Native, High School 1; 14-30 lines for High School 2 and above. Poems that do not conform to these lengths cannot be accepted.
3. Indicate your school in your email, especially if you are using a personal email account.

To use the slates of poems:

• First, click on a language to download the list of approved poems:  Ancient Greek,  Chinese, French, German, Italian, Latin, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish. Please know that CT COLT is aware of the many variants of poetry:  this is most often the case with celebrated authors, who have revised earlier versions of their works.  It is therefore possible that the version that your students are using differs from that posted here.  In this case, just send in 3 hard copies of your version so that the judges will have the text that your student prepared.   Thank you for your patience as we fine-tune this new initiative!
  

• Second, click on a language below to download the texts themselves:  Please note that some of the files have been corrected.
  

• • Ancient Greek & Latin: please see the list of level-appropriate authors (vs specific selections).  As in the past, the same selection may be used for different levels.  Substitutions will be permitted only with the expressed consent of the Chair of Judges, ML Ennis.  For Latin only:  submit scanned poetry
  • Chinese (Traditional Mandarin Characters) Middle School:  MS 1, MS 2, MS Native;  High School :  HS 1, HS 2, HS 3, HS 4, HS 5-6, HS Native
  • Chinese (Simplified Mandarin Characters) Middle School:  MS 1, MS 2, MS Native;  High School :  HS 1, HS 2, HS 3, HS 4, HS 5-6, HS Native
  • French - Middle School:  MS 1, MS 2, MS Native;  High School :  HS 1, HS 2, HS 3, HS 4, HS 5-6, HS Native
  • German - Middle School:  MS 1, MS 2, MS Native;  High School :  HS 1, HS 2, HS 3, HS 4, HS 5-6, HS Native
    
  • Italian - Middle School:  MS 1, MS 2, MS Native;  High School :  HS 1, HS 2, HS 3, HS 4, HS 5-6, HS Native 
    
  • Polish - Middle School:  MS 1, MS 2, MS Native;  High School :  HS 1, HS 2, HS 3, HS 4, HS 5-6, HS Native
  • Portuguese - Middle School:  MS 1, MS 2, MS Native;  High School :  HS 1, HS 2, HS 3, HS 4, HS 5-6, HS Native
  • Spanish - Middle School:  MS 1, MS 2, MS Native;  High School :  HS 1, HS 2, HS 3, HS 4, HS 5-6, HS Native

• Third, as always, 3 hard copies of the poem must accompany registration materials.

• As in previous years, students will recite poems of their choice for:  Arabic, ASL, ESOL, Hebrew, Modern Greek, Japanese, Korean, Russian.
  
• ESOL poetry will be judged according to LAS-Links guidelines. To view the chart, just select first icon -- View in Full Screen -- at the bottom of the graphic.  
  
• As always, 3 hard copies of the poem must accompany registration materials.

• Please note that there will be no contests in Hindi or Nepali for 2012.

Other Materials

• Judging Rubric for 2012
• Official CT-COLT site for Registration Rules and Forms from CT-COLT
  
• Directions to Bristol Eastern HS.   Campus map will be available after April 15.
• Room Assignments for the poetry recitations:  Available after April 20.

Questions about the poems?

• Please contact Dr. MaryLouise Ennis, Chair of Poetry Judges.  Or post general questions to our blog (under the Questions? Tab at the top of the page)
  

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