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[2] [3]In front of an esteemed audience at the Isabel Bader Theatre on Wednesday, May 15, Level II student Khalil M.’s voice rose to the top of the bilingual category at the national Poetry in Voice competition.
[4]Toronto French School student Khalil Mair may be short on life experience, but he is certainly not short on talent.
[5]Kyla Kane is a twelfth grader from Vancouver, and the winner of the English language prize at Poetry in Voice, a recitation competition for high school students. For her prize-winning performance, Kyla won $5000 for herself and $1000 for her school library! We asked Kyla to tell us about her experience in the competition, and things that inspire her.
[6]Poetry In Voice [6]
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[8]Three Vancouver students won top prizes for poetry recitation in Toronto last week, the first year that the Poetry in Voice competition was open to students outside Ontario and Quebec.
Kyla Kane, a Grade 12 student from Vancouver Technical secondary, won first place in the English stream, Dede Akolo from Little Flower Academy won second place in the English stream and Natasha Jadavji from Crofton House School won second place in the French stream.
[3]In front of an esteemed audience at the Isabel Bader Theatre on Wednesday, May 15, Level II student Khalil M.’s voice rose to the top of the bilingual category at the national Poetry in Voice competition.
[9]Q: Scott Griffin also sponsors Poetry In Voice, a poetry recitation contest for high school students. Do you know any poems by heart?
A: Heaps. My daughter has an old game in which she mentions some odd or obscure topic and I quote someone’s stanza about it. We haven’t run out yet. I don’t deliberately memorize anything, so the whole process seems to be literally by heart.
[11]Sackville teen Victoria Somerville is visiting Toronto this week for what she expects will be an unforgettable experience as she vies against other top students from across the country in a national poetry competition.
[12]The sense of punishment is largely absent, but the competitiveness and the lifelong love it instilled go a long way towards to explaining Poetry in Voice, Griffin’s other grand gesture towards verse. A recitation competition for school-age children, this year’s edition — taking place May 14 and 15 at the University of Toronto’s Isabel Bader Theatre — will by its end have whittled down entrants from 177 schools across the country to one winner, who will walk away with a cheque and the chance to read again at the Griffin Poetry Prize gala in June.