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 ...

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 ...

Nearly two dozen students from several local schools competed in the 3rd Annual Capital Region Poetry Slam at Doane Stuart.

"Beginnings" expands beyond creative writing to include visual arts, theater arts, informative articles, recipes, and arts ...

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

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 ...

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.

Two new titles playfully present the ups and downs of classroom life through poems. Put Your Eyes Up Here and Other School Poems by Kalli Dakos, illus. by G. Brian Karas, finds narrator Penny ...

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 ...

Springfield school librarian Angela Knight's weekly poem readings inspired a new book. The book, "40 Poems for 40 Weeks," features a poem for each week of the school year. David Harrison ...

Springfield school librarian Angela Knight started reading a poem a week to the hundreds of students at Harrison Elementary. The weekly poem became so popular that if she even hinted at skipping a ...