Kentucky celebrates its literary community, including a high school poetry recitation champ

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Lupita Diaz was a bit blown away to stand alongside some of Kentucky’s literary titans Tuesday at the state Capitol in Frankfort.

“It felt very powerful,” Diaz, who is a freshman at Beechwood High School in Fort Mitchell, Ky., told WFPL News. “I could hear their voices, and I could hear the way they expressed their poems.”