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Willa Perry-Spears stands with their honorable mention medal at the 2023 Minnesota Poetry Out Loud state competition Friday at Mankato State University. DULUTH — Willa Perry-Spears hadn't thought much ...

High school students from across the state gathered Saturday to recite famous poems for the Poetry Out Loud National Recitation Contest. Held in the Mark O. Hatfield library at Willamette University, ...

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 ...

Champaign Central senior Wade Schacht, left, and junior Kate Roth are headed to Springfield on Monday to compete against 14 other students from across Illinois in the 2023 Poetry Out Loud National ...

The Connecticut Office of the Arts, in partnership with Connecticut Humanities, present the 12th annual Poetry Out Loud: National Recitation Contest, supported by the National Endowment for the Arts ...

A Columbia City student placed second for Indiana in the Poetry Out Loud recitation contest. Kylah Hockemeyer from Eagle Tech Academy won $100, as well as $200 for the school. The contest is a ...

ARGUSVILLE, N.D. - A high-school senior here has been busy reciting poems in front of mirrors, family and friends preparing for a national poetry competition in Washington this week. Northern Cass ...

And I'm Melissa Block. If you're looking for proof that teenagers aren't only interested in texting their friends or finding out who got booted off "American Idol," there is Poetry Out Loud. It's a ...