VT HCR136

Congratulates Mapenzi Selemani, a junior at Winooski High School, for winning the 2025 Poetry Out Loud Vermont State championship with recitations of Thomas Hood's "I Remember, I Remember" and William Wordsworth's "The World is Too Much With Us"

Commemorates the 20th anniversary of Poetry Out Loud, a nationwide high school poetry recitation competition supported by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Poetry Foundation

Notes program participation of over 4.5 million students from 21,000 schools with 85,000 teachers nationally since the program began

Vermont participation in 2025 included 3,200 students from 24 classrooms statewide

Directs the Secretary of State to send copies of the resolution to Mapenzi Selemani, the Flynn, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Poetry Foundation, and the Vermont Arts Council