Thursday, March 2nd, the University of Arkansas– Fort Smith’s world languages department hosted their biannual “Declamations of Poetry” event where students performed poetry declamations from a variety of Spanish speaking poets. Evan McClellan, the declared winner of the event, performed a lively rendition of “El León y la ratón” by F é lix Mar í a Samaniego. 23-year-old McClellan is a Spanish major at UAFS and has been a Spanish speaker since 2017. “El León y la ratón” tell