Poetry in Performance:Performance Evaluation Rubric

and

Poetry Out Loud

Daniel Nester, The College of Saint Rose, 2006-2015

An early draft of

Poetry Out

Loud’s Scoring

Rubric

The current of

Poetry Out

Loud’s Scoring

Rubric

Our class’s

scoring rubric

for recorded

performances,

adapted from

Poetry Out Loud

A poem is energy transferred from where the poet got it (he will

have some several causations), by way of the poem itself to, all

the way over to, the reader. Okay. Then the poem itself must, at

all points, be a high energy-construct and, at all points, an

energy-discharge. So: how is the poet to accomplish same

energy, how is he, what is the process by which a poet gets in,

at all points energy at least the equivalent energy which

propelled him in the first place, yet an energy which is peculiar

to verse alone and which will be, obviously, different from the

energy which the reader, because he is a third term, will take

away?

From: Charles Olson, “Projective Verse”

Poetry Out Loud’s

Accuracy Score Sheet,

for the accuracy judge