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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, ...

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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 ...

Madeline Roger, a senior at Baldwin High School, is state champion of the Poetry Out Loud recitation competition. She will compete in nationals next week. Madeline Roger competed last year at the ...

Last month, as the world watched the Winter Olympics in South Korea, another nail-biter was unfolding across the United States, in classrooms throughout Illinois, and in the same rural hamlets and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Highlighting a long tradition of poetry in Colombian literature, the Embassy of the Republic of Colombia staged a poetry recital event in Beijing's Instituto Cervantes on July 21. Santiago Gamboa, ...