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 ...

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 ...

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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.

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, ...

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

Rachel Alexander Cambre, Ph.D., is a visiting fellow with the B. Kenneth Simon Center for American Studies and the Center for Education Policy at The Heritage Foundation. In his rousing keynote ...

<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 ...

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 ...

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 O, Miami Poetry Festival has dreamed up dozens of creative ways to expose Miamians to poetry: flying banners in the sky, sewing verses into thrift store clothing, marching through the streets ...