Videos

2024

Chloé Simard: “Poem for My Body” by Ruth Daniell

Maia Cassie: “The Problem With Being a Box Too Small for Its Contents” by Lucia Misch

Bem Denga: “If Our Bodies Could Rust, We Would Be Falling Apart” by Billy-Ray Belcourt

Emiliia Lebedeva: “Poem for My Body” by Ruth Daniell

Daniela Damier Ducreux: “In That Other Fantasy Where We Live Forever” by Wanda Coleman

James Hoag: “Let's Not Get It Together” by RC Weslowski

Emiliia Lebedeva: “Poetry” by Marianne Moore

James Hoag: “you aren’t going to like what i have to say” by Donato Mancini

Daniela Damier Ducreux: “Doña Josefina Counsels Doña Conceptión Before Entering Sears” by Maurice Kilwein Guevara

Emiliia Lebedeva: “Bilingual/Bilingüe” by Rhina P. Espaillat

Daniela Damier Ducreux: “Poor Speaker” by Sonnet L'Abbé

James Hoag: “sturgeon” by Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm

2024 National Finals Livestream

2023

2023 National Finals and FutureVerse 30 minute version

2023 National Finals and FutureVerse in 2 minutes

2023 National Finals Livestream

Maia Cassie: “the ghosts of women once girls” by Aja Monet

Olivia Bridgman: “How to Triumph Like a Girl” by Ada Limón

Maria Espindola: “Paper People” by Harry Baker

Olivia Bridgman: “Thoughtless Cruelty” by Charles Lamb

Maria Espindola: “from Quit Dying to Die” by Lauren Turner

Maia Cassie: “Regardless” by Aisha Sasha John

Maria Espindola: “How to Tell If a Poem Is Trans or Not” by Charlie Petch

Maia Cassie: “These Poems, She Said” by Robert Bringhurst

Olivia Bridgman: "Pride" by Dane Swan

Philippe Morissette: “I Am the People, the Mob” by Carl Sandburg

Aaronsaul Negre: “Illegalese: Floodgate Dub” by Wayde Compton

Maité Turgeon: “Skeena Crossing” by Sarah de Leeuw

2022

2022 Online National Finals

Stephanie Omorotionmwan: "Black Sheroes" by El Jones

Stephanie Omorotionmwan: "Two Guns in the Sky for Daniel Harris" by Raymond Antrobus

Stephanie Omorotionmwan: "If Our Bodies Could Rust, We Would Be Falling Apart" by Billy-Ray Belcourt

Al Gilbert: "Comfort" by Joshua Jennifer Espinoza

Al Gilbert: "Someday I'll Love Ocean Vuong" by Ocean Vuong

Al Gilbert: "One Art" by Elizabeth Bishop

Bem Denga: "Tide" by Soraya Peerbaye

Bem Denga: "Interesting People of Newfoundland" by John Ashbery

Bem Denga: "Dulce et Decorum Est" by Wilfred Owen

Nadine Berdous: "Richard Cory" by Edwin Arlington Robinson

Amira Aouchiche: "Dear Diaspora Child" by Cicely Belle Blain

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