Junior Samrita Naidu won this year’s school Poetry Out Loud competition on Jan. 14 and will compete for the county title on Feb. 5.
Naidu stood out for her recitation of Diane Thiel’s “Listening in Deep Space.”
She credited her “pleasantly surprising” win to her background in Indian classical dancing.
“In my type of dance, there’s a lot of expressiveness, whether it’s through physicality or your facial expressions, and I feel like I went into it with that sort of mindset,” Naidu said.
The runner-up is junior Jackson Kirkley.
