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

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.

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

After winning fourth place in last weekend’s “Poetry Out Loud” state competition, Central Falls High School student Teeghan Riley says that it was a great accomplishment but ...

High school students from across Michigan will convene at Central Michigan University March 14 to compete in Poetry Out Loud, a national recitation contest sponsored by Michigan Humanities and ...

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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, ...

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 ...

<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 ...