Corrected: An earlier version of this story incorrectly listed the number of performers who could qualify for prizes of $1,000-$20,000, plus money for their schools, in the national Poetry Out Loud ...

Nine students recited Scripture and poetry to reflect on Holy Week March 31 at 7 p.m. in the Heritage Room.  The Memorization Club hosted the event, with recitations divided into four different ...

Tallahassee Collegiate Academy junior Esinam Agama will compete in the national Poetry Out Loud competition in Washington, ...

A Windsor High School junior will take his demanding stage presence to a national audience, performing poetry that speaks to his identity as a person of color. “I am the Smoke King. I am Black,” ...

Reciting poems that touched on the complexities of her Mexican-American heritage, a St. Francis DeSales High School senior recently won Ohio's Poetry Out Loud competition and will take part in the ...

YPSILANTI, MI - Five-year-old Ziare Gunn didn't hesistate when asked to recite a poem at a meeting of Ypsilanti's board of education. Ziare had memorized the words of the poem "Hey Black Child" by ...

After months of competitions in classrooms and communities nationwide, the 2026 Poetry Out Loud National Finals will take ...

WRITE OUT LOUD, an organization founded in 2007 with a commitment to inspire, challenge and entertain by reading literature aloud for audiences of all ages, is currently seeking submissions from San ...

Amanda Gorman, the country’s first-ever National Youth Poet Laureate, made history again Sunday by becoming the first person to recite a poem during a Super Bowl pregame ceremony. Gorman, a ...

And by opposing end them? The benefits of reciting poetry were not clear to me as a schoolboy forced to memorize verse by Shakespeare or Victor Hugo and voice it verbatim before a strict teacher, in ...