The finals of the Poetry Out Loud high school poetry competition take place in Washington, D.C., this week. NPR asked some of this year's competitors about how to master a poem. High school ...

Graduating from high school is a major milestone! And whether you're a grad yourself, or you want to find a graduation poem to express your sentiments for someone special, our high school ...

Evan Wang, a senior at Upper Merion High School, wants to see young people engage with poetry off the page and in everyday ...

That was one of the main thoughts that inspired the 17-year-old junior to start the poetry club at Appleton North High School. Put simply, writing makes her feel better. "In writing ...

Out of 157,000 students who participated in Poetry Out Loud this school year, the Wichita East High senior is one of 55 who advanced to the national finals in Washington, D.C. The winner gets $20,000.

But this week it is getting a school poem, “Dear CUNY.” It was written by the national youth poet laureate, Stephanie Pacheco, who attends Borough of Manhattan Community College, one of CUNY ...

KOCHI: What better than a student ushering in the new school year. For the first time in its history, a poem written by a ...

In 2006, The Poetry Center launched its first annual Poetry Prize for High School Girls in Massachusetts (open to sophomores and juniors); since then, our contest has expanded into the other New ...

Amanda Gorman slammed officials at a school in Miami-Dade County, Florida, on Tuesday for what she called a ban on elementary students reading "The Hill We Climb," the poem she famously recited at ...

Following the panel’s review it was decided the poem and three other works would be moved to the middle school section of its library. “I’m gutted,” now 25-year-old Gorman, who is the ...

In late May 2023, readers asked Snopes if reports were true that a Florida school had banned National Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman's poem, "The Hill We Climb." The claim had been widely ...