After months of competitions in classrooms and communities nationwide, the 2026 Poetry Out Loud National Finals will take place April 28–29 in Washington, DC. Reciting poetry from an anthology that ...

Mar. 23—As Wica-ta-wi Hoksina Brown inhabits the poem that won him the state Poetry Out Loud championship, he does so carefully, his voice almost conversational at first, then growing in strength and ...

Lest you think screens have completely taken over teens' minds, note that more than 4 million high school students have been reciting poetry for fun and competition for the past 20 years as part of a ...

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Vincent D’Onofrio stood before me with his eyes closed. His black baseball cap partially shaded his face in the dark room, lit only by the art that he and fellow actor/artist Laurence Fuller—as the ...

The secret to a good poetry recitation is subtly conveying the right emotions, at least according to Marshall School senior David Kamper. “That’s what you’re doing when you’re reciting poetry, you’re ...

BLUE HILL, Maine (WABI) - The Maine Arts Commission has named a George Stevens senior Sofya Lantratova its “Poetry Out Loud” State Champion, the first such honor for a student from the school. She’s ...

And by opposing end them? The benefits of reciting poetry were not clear to me as a schoolboy forced to memorize verse by Shakespeare or Victor Hugo and voice it verbatim before a strict teacher, in ...