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Mississippi's 2023 Poetry Out Loud Recitation Contest. High school students from across the state compete for a chance to represent Mississippi in the National Recitation Contest in Washington, D.C.

The gusher of empathy, wisdom and poetry that is Anis Mojgani stood alone at a microphone Friday night. When he spoke, he often evoked rapture, like Fred Astaire dancing, like Nadia Comaneci soaring, ...

Poetry found me at a young age. When I think about the role that poetry now plays in my life, I think of poetry intertwined with performance and design and the movement of my daily life. Becoming a ...

During the pandemic lockdown, Yale’s Ayesha Ramachandran tried an experiment in poetry consumption. Ramachandran, an associate professor of comparative literature, bought stacks of books of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mar. 12—CHAMPAIGN — Champaign Central senior Wade Schacht stood with his head down on a stage in a Parkland College lecture hall ...

Kenyan students at the poetry recitation competition held in Kenyatta University, Nairobi, Kenya on Nov 5. [Photo by Liu Haowen for China Daily] One of the participants, Millicent Ngugi, whose Chinese ...

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 ...

A student from Commonwealth Connections Academy is set to compete Saturday in the Philadelphia region semifinals of the “Poetry Out Loud” national poetry recitation competition. Student Quinn Ellis, ...

Last week, Canada’s unofficial patron of poetry, Scott Griffin, unveiled a new effort to bring more poetry into the minds and everyday lives of Canadians. The founder of the $200,000 Griffin Poetry ...