Katherine Wartnaby, Joplin 10th-grader, recites Linda Pastan's "I am Learning to Abandon the World" during an in-school competition for the Poetry Out Loud National Recitation Contest on Tuesday afternoon at the Joplin High School 9th and 10th crade campus. Wartnaby took first palce in the competition and won the right to compete in the regional competition on Feb. 11, 2014.
Globe | Laurie Sisk