Live poets at Elphinstone

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.