Willa Perry-Spears stands with their honorable mention medal at the 2023 Minnesota Poetry Out Loud state competition Friday at Mankato State University. DULUTH — Willa Perry-Spears hadn't thought much ...

Each year, high school students from all over the United States come together to compete in a poetry recitation contest — standing center stage with only a microphone and their memory. From NPR News, ...

High school students from across the state gathered Saturday to recite famous poems for the Poetry Out Loud National Recitation Contest. Held in the Mark O. Hatfield library at Willamette University, ...

• Go to www.spokesman.com/video to see a video of Langston Ward’s championship performance. • To see a video of Langston Ward’s performance at the 2013 state ...

Senior Nora Rynkiewicz won the Wyoming Valley West High School Poetry Out Loud contest. Rynkiewicz recited the poem ‘The Statesmen’ by Ambrose Bierce. Second place went to Jeff Sokoloski with his ...

ARGUSVILLE, N.D. - A high-school senior here has been busy reciting poems in front of mirrors, family and friends preparing for a national poetry competition in Washington this week. Northern Cass ...

How many poems do you know by heart? Not nursery rhymes or limericks, but poems of subtle structure and nuance, written in iambic pentameter, dactylic hexameter, AABB, or blank verse. If you are like ...

On the evening of Oct. 13, dozens of students filed into Swartz Hall, escaping the rain to attend “Qahwa, Kalam, and Calligraphy,” a program hosted by the Harvard Divinity School. The event ...

An intra-class poem recitation competition on the theme “Nature” was organised at Shishu Niketan Public School, Sector 66, ...

To paraphrase Audre Lorde, we need poetry because there are no new ideas — only new ways of making them felt. "And, boy, do ...