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Searching for poetry can be both exciting and overwhelming.  Poetry has such an expansive history that the possibilities of what time era and country to select poems from actually could be a factor in your search.  There are literally an endless supply of poems available for you to search through.  To help aid your search the Forensics Community has done some looking around to fi

Poetry is created with a rhythm.  Poets exude rhythm.  Every bit of punctuation, every rhyme, every selected iamb is a part of the concoction.  Poets strive to create a rhythm and Poetry Interpretation makes an attempt to vocally express it.  The trouble becomes when a piece of poetry has too harsh of a rhythm.  A poem constructed of four line stanzas comprised of rhymi

Prose Reading is an odd event.  On one side you are to interpret the piece through creating multiple character voices and with subtle pops.  On the other you hold a book you are to "read" from and present a reading of the text.  Many consider Prose an acting event, yet elements that define the event restrain it from ever becoming like Dramatic Interpretation.  Prose is almos

All of us have heard Poetry readings where the speaker has fallen into a ramble of monotony.  Factors such a rhyme, rhythm, and general uninspired reciting tend to be the culprits behind this torture.  Poetry is meant to be moving, and not in the sense where you have a strong desire to move away from the speaker.  A poem being read aloud should conform to the rhythms the poet has

Impromptu is not an even that gives much to the competitor.  A topic and a note card.  That is all Impromptu gives.  You supply the wits to best use the time being taken.  It is remarkable to witness a speaker create a speech in a snap with so little supplied by the event.  That's the wonder of the Impromptu Speaker.  They are cunning; using all they have and explo