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Sarah Lord and Amir Kaskas represented Caddo Magnet High at the city competition for Poetry Out<\/a>\u00a0Loud<\/a>, on Sunday, January 24, at 2:00 at the Norton Art Gallery.<\/p>\n

The competition, presented in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts and the Poetry Foundation, is part of a national program that encourages high school students to learn about great poetry through memorization, performance, and competition.<\/p>\n

In the 2014-2015 school year, Poetry Out Loud celebrates its tenth anniversary, reaching nearly 2.5 million students at more than 7,300 schools nationwide in the past decade.<\/p>\n

The top three finalists (and the poems they recited) from this year\u2019s regional competition are:<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
1<\/b><\/span>st<\/sup><\/b><\/span> Place-Shauna McCrary<\/b><\/span> (North Caddo)<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
2<\/b><\/span>nd<\/sup><\/b><\/span> Place-Chaddrick Thomas<\/b>\u00a0<\/span>(North Caddo)<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
3<\/b><\/span>rd<\/sup><\/b><\/span> Place-Amir Kaskas<\/b><\/span>–<\/span>The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls,\u00a0<\/i><\/span>by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Invictus, by William Earnest Henley (<\/span>Caddo Magnet High, Faculty Sponsor-Leslye Gilchrist<\/b><\/span>)<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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