The Poetry Out Loud competition will give South Dakota high school students a chance to showcase their talents for the state ...

A CSA New Tech student from Columbus was among the state finalists for the state Poetry Out Loud contest sponsored by Indiana ...

Seventeen high school students from across Michigan will compete at Central Michigan University, with the winner advancing to nationals in Washington, D.C., for a chance at a $20,000 scholarship.

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A student at Starkweather Public School has earned an award in the 2026 North Dakota State Poetry Out Loud championship held recently in Bismarck. Sawyer Wilhelmi, a senior, ...

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 ...

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, ...

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.

<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 ...

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 ...