Audio slide show: Poetry emotions

The Get Lit Players, a troupe of teenagers, performs classic and original poems for students at Dorsey High in Los Angeles, breaking preconceived notions of what literature is.

By Robert Gauthier

Sept. 16, 2014 11:50 AM PT

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Robert Gauthier

Robert Gauthier has been with the Los Angeles Times since 1994. He was the photographer for a project detailing the failings of an L.A. public hospital that won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for public service. Before The Times, Gauthier worked at the San Diego Union-Tribune, the Escondido Times-Advocate and the Bernardo News in San Diego County, his hometown.

Audio slide show: Poetry emotions

The Get Lit Players, a troupe of teenagers, performs classic and original poems for students at Dorsey High in Los Angeles, breaking preconceived notions of what literature is.

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