Canterbury student to compete in national poetry recital contest

Hello, listen, I am on a field phone, do not speak until I say “over.”

You can read those words on the page — the first line of Fire Watch by Ottawa-born poet Ken Babstock — but they were meant to be heard. And when Phoenix Sandrock speaks them, the words are as haunting and lonely as the Rocky Mountain fire warden in Babstock’s 2001 poem.