Ezekiel Moses, a ninth grader at Bexley High School, won the Ohio Poetry Out Loud competition. Moses advanced to the national ...

Sydney Frost recites Siren Song by Margaret Atwood with ease. With minute hand movements and calculated inflection, her ...

Out of 157,000 students who participated in Poetry Out Loud this school year, Wichita East High senior Ismail Saeed is one of ...

Oleson, a junior, is the latest Siouxlander to make it to the Poetry Out Loud nationals following 2024 competitor Grace Powell, a Dakota Valley grad. We talked with Oleson, Powell and Poetry Out Loud ...

For 20 years, teens from around the country have come to Washington, D.C. to compete in the national Poetry Out Loud finals.

The third poem he’s preparing for the national contest is “Say Grace” by Emily Jungmin Yoon. Saeed’s parents and grandparents attend all his Poetry Out Loud competitions. Because his grandparents are ...

Willie Nelson's songwriting journey has been a longtime in the making, and it stared when he wrote his first poem at just six ...

Mikhayla Robinson Smith: My mom says that the first poem I ever wrote ... My senior year of high school, we had to read a poem out loud, and that's what really ignited my interest in poetry.

Rize Simmons is on a winning streak. The Windsor High School senior and two-time state champion of the Poetry Out Loud competition is focusing on his preparation for Nationals next month ...

For the 20th annual Poetry Out Loud finals this week (May 5-7), 55 students, one champion from every state and American Samoa, the District of Columbia, Guam, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin ...

In a quiet moment on an otherwise ordinary afternoon, Modise Sekgothe found out he had been selected as only the second poet ...

“I want to hear an American poem,” Baraka recites in an audio clip that plays during an interlude video at Beyoncé’s Cowboy ...