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[5]Poetry in Voice [5]
Teenagers across Canada compete by memorizing & reciting poems.
[6]Poetry recitation prowess.
Vancouver student has won the English stream of the national Poetry in Voice competition for the second year in a row. Roan Shankaruk from Vancouver Technical secondary won $5,000, plus $1,000 for her school’s library. Half of the money is reserved for the purchase of poetry books.
[7]For poets in Canada and around the world, Scott Griffin’s name is, well, poetry. In 2000, he founded the Griffin Poetry Prize – Canada’s richest poetry award. Mr. Griffin has since established Poetry In Voice – a recitation competition for Canadian high school students now in its third year.
[9]INFLECTION, TONE, PITCH, and punctuation—poetry is so much more than just the written word. The Poetry in Voice national recitation competition is helping to spread this art.
[10]In praise of poetry [10]
High school students from across the country are reciting poetry. They’re doing it in French, in English, and sometimes both. Find out why.
Listen as Bernard St. Laurent interviews Poetry In Voice founder Scott Griffin and 2013 Bilingual Champion Khalil Mair. Johanne Blais, the ‟C’est la vie” Word Lady, and host of the Poetry In Voice National Finals, closes the show with a discussion of the word ‟cœur” — as in ‟apprendre un poème par cœur”.
[11]For the fourth year in a row, the national poetry competition is engaging students from over 360 schools with finalists squaring off in Vancouver in May of this year.
During the Van Tech competition, students read their favourite poetry pieces in front of hundreds of classmates. They were graded on their stage presence, understanding of the poem, articulation, the difficulty of the piece they chose as well as given an overall score for their reading. The top ten students were then asked to give a second reading.
[12]Do today’s high school students take any interest in the works of past poets? Most adults would believe that they have other interests based on the technology of the future. Yet more than 60 students crowded into the library of Elphinstone Secondary School Dec. 17 to hear seven fellow students recite well known poems for the Poetry in Voice competition, a national contest in which students memorize and recite verses in front of an audience.
[13] [14]So, this happened; Poetry In Voice. National Finals May 15th, 2013.