Center and highschool college students compete in Sengebau poetry competitors | Life-style

(Northern Marianas Humanities Council) — D’anahlei Rodriguez and Juneya Quitano of Kagman Excessive Faculty bagged first place within the 2022 Valentine N. Sengebau Competitors’s Senior Division on Oct. 25 on the American Memorial Park Customer Heart Theater. Rodriguez and Quitano, each Seniors at Kagman Excessive Faculty, carried out as a du) an unique poem they composed, titled Woven Inside.

“Profitable first place was like reaching one other milestone as a result of it gave us the voice to symbolize our native individuals,” mentioned D’anahlei Rodriguez to specific what profitable the competitors meant to her.

Yu Rong Jiang, a scholar from Francisco M. Sablan Center Faculty took first place within the Junior Division in her recital of Valentine N. Sengebau’s poem titled, Looking out.

Final yr’s victor, now a senior at Mt. Carmel Faculty, Jill Anne Mallari secured second place. Mallari carried out her unique poem, Ode to House. In third place for senior division was Jude Litulumar, a senior from Kagman Excessive Faculty performing his unique poem, Divided, sharing his private view on cultural identification.

Third place within the junior division was Eighth-grade Hopwood Center Faculty scholar Seano Pangilinan who carried out Time of Consciousness by Sengebau. Second place Eighth-grade Francisco M. Sablan Center Faculty scholar Gian Antonio opened the competitors together with his recital of I Hear the Message.

The competitors is an annual occasion hosted by the Northern Marianas Humanities Council. Senior division opponents are judged on two classes: content material materials of their unique poem and recital. Rivals within the junior division recited poems composed by Valentine N. Sengebau that had been revealed in a 2004 anthology, titled Microchild.

The Valentine N. Sengebau Poetry Competitors goals to advertise an appreciation for poetry that captures expressions of our numerous experiences and values as they relate to tradition, identification, and alter. Via this occasion, we hope to strengthen our contestants’ literacy and oratory abilities. The competitors is open to all center college and highschool college students and is held yearly in October, CNMI Humanities Month.

Judges for the competitors this yr had been Northern Marianas School Professor Adam Walsh, social media sensation Antonette “Netty Cee” Castro, earlier Sengebau competitors winner Beda Mundo, and English/Language Arts educators Zeno Deleon Guerrero and Loremel Hocog.