A high school student from Novato will represent the state of California in a national poetry recitation contest.

Out of nearly 6,000 competitors statewide, Anacortes High School junior Sidra Marshall was named first runner-up earlier this month in a poetry recitation competition for high school students.

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 ...

A high school student from Novato will represent the state of California in a national poetry recitation contest. Lillian Braly, a 17-year-old junior from Marin School of the Arts at Novato High ...

Caliyah McCall, a Knightdale High School junior, has been announced as the winner of the 2026 North Carolina Poetry Out Loud competition, according to a press release.

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 ...

In her third time competing in the Poetry Out Loud state finals, Grace Christian's Amelia Rylak finally brought home a championship trophy.

BUFFALO, N.Y. – Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown, Nancy Wells, the University at Buffalo’s vice president for philanthropy and alumni relations, and Robin Shulze, dean of the UB College of Arts and Sciences, ...

<P> Chopticon High School junior Mariah Demirkan stepped on stage after school one day last week to recite two poems.<P> It was not the memorization that made it hard, she said, but simply standing in ...

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What an a-muse-ment park! Local bards will take their verse to new heights by reciting Coney Island-inspired poetry to thrillseekers on the Wonder Wheel at Deno’s Wonder Wheel Amusement Park on May 8.

The gusher of empathy, wisdom and poetry that is Anis Mojgani stood alone at a microphone Friday night. When he spoke, he often evoked rapture, like Fred Astaire dancing, like Nadia Comaneci soaring, ...