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, ...

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 ...

Dallastown Area High School students will participate in the seventeenth annual school-wide tier of the Poetry Out Loud competition on Wednesday, December 10, 2025, at 7:00 p.m.

This year, the annual Poetry Out Loud competition will continue in Santa Barbara County through a virtual program sponsored by Corazón del Pueblo: The Cultural and Creative Arts Center of the Santa ...

Champaign Central senior Wade Schacht, left, and junior Kate Roth are headed to Springfield on Monday to compete against 14 other students from across Illinois in the 2023 Poetry Out Loud National ...

Senior Nora Rynkiewicz won the Wyoming Valley West High School Poetry Out Loud contest. Rynkiewicz recited the poem ‘The Statesmen’ by Ambrose Bierce. Second place went to Jeff Sokoloski with his ...

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 ...

The first Poetry Recitation Competition in Kenya was held at the Confucius Institute of Kenyatta University, in the capital ...

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 ...

If you're looking for proof that teenagers aren't only interested in texting their friends or finding out who got booted off "American Idol," there is Poetry Out Loud. It's a recitation contest ...