Hattiesburg HS Hub City Classic

2022 — NSDA Campus, MS/US

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Original Spoken Word

Event Description:

Original Spoken Word Poetry

1. Material: Students will write and perform original poetry. Original Spoken Word Poetry is poetry written for performance to express ideas, experience, or emotion through the creative arrangement of words according to their sound, their rhythm, their meaning.

2. Quotation: No more than 150 word of the original poetry may be direct quotation from any other speech or writing, and such quotations must be identified in a printed copy of the speech. An introduction is permitted, but not required.

3. Delivery: The delivery must be memorized, and no book or script may be used.

4. Time: The maximum time limit is 5 minutes with a 30-second grace period. This is a hard limit, and time spent walking to and from the camera counts toward the recording time if the performance is done via recording. If there are multiple judges in the round, all must agree that the student has gone beyond the grace period. Should a student go beyond the grace period, the student may not be ranked 1st. There is no other prescribed penalty for going over the grace period. The ranking is up to each individual judge’s discretion. Judges who choose to time are to use accurate (stopwatch function) timing devices. No minimum time is mandated.