In praise of poetry

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”.