Petersburg High School poets recite on KTOO for the Alaska state finals of the Poetry Out Loud competition

Two Petersburg poets took the stage at KTOO studios in Juneau earlier this month, as state finalists in the Poetry Out Loud recitation competition. Freya Tucker and Mette Miller had both memorized and recited poems in front of their high school English class as a required assignment from their teacher Tim Shumway, then for extra credit they performed in front of the entire school. Then they submitted recordings of their recitations to the statewide competition. "We were thinking, it would maybe just be one of us, but it was so cool that it was both of us. It was really nice to go together and...