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[2] [3]Cruelly, April is national poetry month. But the poets, at least, are not dismayed. Dozens are expected to gather this Tuesday in Toronto to listen to and judge the finals of the second annual Poetry in Voice recitation contest for Canadian high school students. Among the judges will be Saskatchewan-born Karen Solie, winner of the 2010 Griffin Poetry Prize.
[4]The Griffin Prize shortlist announcement Tuesday included readings by Poetry In Voice participants of their favourite T.S. Eliot poems.
Established in 2011 with 10 schools in Ontario and Quebec, the competition has attracted 40 contenders this year, and will be enlarged to all provinces in 2013, Griffin said.
[5]MONTREAL - As contests go, what happened on stage at Maison Théâtre was unusual and compelling. With the words of Walt Whitman, Gaston Miron, Baudelaire and Shakespeare committed to memory, students took turns reciting poems.
[6]Damian Rogers is a poet and creative director of Poetry In Voice, the grand finals of which take place on April 17 in Toronto. I recently saw letters by the Nobel Prizewinning poet Derek Walcott on display at the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library at U of T and it got me thinking how long it’s been since I wrote a real letter.
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[9]Selwyn House Grade 11 student Josh Cape took third place in the Quebec finals of Poetry In Voice, a bilingual poetry recitation contest held at Ecole Internationale de Montreal on April 2.
Josh was one of 11 finalists in the bilingual competition sponsored by Scott Griffin, the man behind the Griffin Poetry Prize, the biggest prize in the world awarded for a book of poetry. The competition began in Ontario, expanded to include Quebec this year, and will go national next year.
[10]Damian Rogers is a poet and creative director of Poetry In Voice, the grand finals of which take place on April 17 in Toronto. T.S. Eliot famously claimed April was the cruellest month, and I think I understand why. It’s all about extremes - one minute, temperatures spike like it’s summer, the next a frigid wind is whipping me down the street. And there’s something about the changing light and the smell of the air that fills me with a kind of heartbreaking elation - the medical term is spring fever. April is also National Poetry Month.
[11]Poetry in Motion [11]
Etobicoke School of the Arts hosted the second annual Poetry in Voice recitation contest on March 1st. Poetry in Voice is a national, bilingual recitation contest that inspires high school students to develop lifelong relationships with poetry while improving their public speaking and language skills. One by one, students stepped up to the mic and gave it their all as they passionately recited a variety of memorized poems. While up on their soapboxes, the talented teens displayed some impressive language skills. The winner of this competition will go on to compete nationally. For more information about this exciting new initiative, visit poetryinvoice.com
[12]Poetry In Voice [12]
For many of the Victoria Park students, Thursday March 1, 2012 was nothing more than an ordinary school day. However, this certainly was not the case for the participants of the Poetry in Voice Competition. For these students, this was the day upon which weeks and weeks of practicing and memorizing would ultimately pay off; it was the day of the finals of the poetry contest.
[13]CORNWALL — Nine students vied to offer the best poetry recital on Friday, with Kristen Godwin Stewart finishing on top.
The senior at St. Joseph’s Secondary School was first in the school-wide poetry reading, sending her to the province-wide Poetry in Voice competition next month.
[14]While reading and creating poetry are a mandatory part of the curriculum of most school systems, it’s not a career path deemed as lucrative or even sustainable to many aspiring writers.