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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

• 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 ...

Champaign Central senior Wade Schacht, left, and junior Kate Roth are headed to Springfield on Monday to compete against 14 other students from across Illinois in the 2023 Poetry Out Loud National ...

This year, the annual Poetry Out Loud competition will continue in Santa Barbara County through a virtual program sponsored by Corazón del Pueblo: The Cultural and Creative Arts Center of the Santa ...

A poetry recitation programme was held at the conference room of Redcross Bhawan recently, where several renowned poets and writers of Odia literature, along with some younger ones, took part in ...

YANGON, Dec. 24 (Xinhua) -- Soft orchestral music filled Studio A of Myanmar Radio and Television in Yangon, Myanmar, as ...

If you're looking for proof that teenagers aren't only interested in texting their friends or finding out who got booted off "American Idol," there is Poetry Out Loud. It's a recitation contest ...