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The Mining Journal: Houghton student looks to repeat as Poetry Out Loud finalist

by | Mar 9, 2021 | News: Poetry Out Loud

One of last year’s finalists in the Michigan Poetry Out Loud competition is looking to repeat the feat this year.

Adeline Frazier, a 10th-grader at Houghton High School, will compete at the state level again after winning the school level. This year’s contest was conducted virtually, as the state’s will be.

To advance to state, she performed Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Conqueror Worm” and Robert Graves’ “The Kiss.”

The Poe poem is a longer one, and “really beautiful,” Frazier said…

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