HOUGHTON -- Houghton High School is participating in Poetry Out Loud.
This is a team effort between state art agencies, The Poetry Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. This is a national competition that helps teach students the value of poetry, and it teaches them how to speak in front of an audience.
Each student had the chance to recite two poems in front of their peers and three judges.
"It's a wonderful opportunity for students to appreciate and to understand and learn poetry in a completely different way," said HHS English teacher Julie Antilla. "It allows them to choose the poem or the poems that they like, and they also hear other people's poems based on what they like."
Twenty-six students participated in the event, and they also learned how to energize each poem in order to create feeling among their listeners.
This is the seventh year Houghton High School has been a part of the event, and the winner will receive a trip to Lansing to compete at the state level.
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