Nearly a dozen middle and high school students got on stage today in hopes of their poetry performance getting themselves to ...

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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.

On the evening of Oct. 13, dozens of students filed into Swartz Hall, escaping the rain to attend “Qahwa, Kalam, and Calligraphy,” a program hosted by the Harvard Divinity School. The event ...

The ornate Barre Opera House typically hosts world-renowned actors and musicians. But at the Poetry Out Loud semifinals on March 9, Vermont high school students took center stage. In formal attire, ...

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, ...

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 ...

YANGON, Dec. 24 (Xinhua) -- Soft orchestral music filled Studio A of Myanmar Radio and Television in Yangon, Myanmar, as voices rose in both Chinese and Myanmar verse, weaving together two literary ...