The National Champion of this year's Poetry Out Loud competition was announced Wednesday. Isabella Callery recites "Thoughtless Cruelty" by Charles Lamb.
DAVID GREENE, HOST: All right. In Washington, D.C., a national champion was chosen last night.</s>ELIZABETH ACEVEDO: And the 2019 national champion of Poetry Out Loud, winner of $20,000, the senior, Isabella Callery from Minnesota.</s>DAVID GREENE, HOST: Thousands of high school students from across the country faced off this year reciting poetry. And here is the winner - reciting "Thoughtless Cruelty" by Charles Lamb.</s>ISABELLA CALLERY: (Reading) The greatest being can have but fibers, nerves and flesh. And these, the smallest ones possess, although their frame and structure less escape our seeing.</s>DAVID GREENE, HOST: That is Isabella Callery. She was reciting "Thoughtless Cruelty" by Charles Lamb.