— Margaret Atwood
Poetry In Voice/Les voix de la poésie is a registered charity that is ensuring all Canadians speak the language of poetry. We want to be the essential resource for teaching and learning poetry in Canada — and beyond.
We provide secondary school educators with engaging content and experiences, in English and French, to inspire their students to read, recite, and write poetry.
Read
Recite
Write
Linguistic curiosity & creativity
Confidence in public speaking
Empathy & cultural understanding
Lifelong relationship with poetry
In 2010, we ran a poetry recitation contest with students from 12 Ontario schools.
In 2011, students in Quebec joined.
And in 2012, the contest was opened to students from across Canada.
In 2013, we started to expand our resources to include lesson plans, Poem Roulette, Poet In Class/Poètes à l’école, VOICES/VOIX poetry journal...
As of fall 2019, 3037 schools have joined us. That’s almost ⅕ of all schools in Canada!
teachers have created an account on our website
Teachers have read our lesson plans
times
Our poems have been read over
times
students have recited a poem
students submitted their poetry to the inaugural issue of our journal
students have met a poet since 2017 through our Poet In Class/Poètes à l’école program
— The Right Honourable Adrienne Clarkson
— Khalil Mair, graduate of the University of Oxford and 2013 English Stream Champion
— Marianne Verville, student
— Marie-Andrée Arsenault, teacher
— Tsion Berie, Student
— Sophie Gamache, teacher
— David Usher, musician and author
— Kayla Geitzler, poet