Beechwood High School junior Bella Slone won the 2026 Kentucky Poetry Out Loud recitation contest in Lexington this week. With her achievement, Slone received a $200 award, $500 for her school library ...
Rachel Alexander Cambre, Ph.D., is a visiting fellow with the B. Kenneth Simon Center for American Studies and the Center for Education Policy at The Heritage Foundation. In his rousing keynote ...
A young poet from Winston-Salem is headed to Washington, D.C., in April to compete in the national Poetry Out Loud finals. High school senior Richmond Parris, of UNC School of the Arts, clinched the ...
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Sydney Frost recites Siren Song by Margaret Atwood with ease. With minute hand movements and calculated inflection, her performance of the poem lasts no longer than two minutes, but the room is silent ...
Alice Kilduff, a 17-year-old student at Denver School of the Arts, will represent Colorado in Washington, D.C. at the end of the month at the Poetry Out Loud finals. Launched in the spring of 2006, ...
Natasha Vargas, the 2014 New Jersey Poetry Out Loud champion, placed third in the national competition Wednesday in Washington, D.C. (Frances Micklow/The Star-Ledger) New Jersey Poetry Out Loud ...
Look out, President Barack Obama: There’s a new group of talented public speakers in town. Today marks the finals of Poetry Out Loud, a national competition in which high school students recite poetry ...
Corrected: An earlier version of this story incorrectly listed the number of performers who could qualify for prizes of $1,000-$20,000, plus money for their schools, in the national Poetry Out Loud ...
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