Each year, high school students from all over the United States come together to compete in a poetry recitation contest — standing center stage with only a microphone and their memory. From NPR News, ...

How many poems do you know by heart? Not nursery rhymes or limericks, but poems of subtle structure and nuance, written in iambic pentameter, dactylic hexameter, AABB, or blank verse. If you are like ...

A poetry recitation programme was held at the conference room of Redcross Bhawan recently, where several renowned poets and writers of Odia literature, along with some younger ones, took part in ...

A recent experience of listening to poetry recited from memory took my mind to a cold winter evening many years ago when A.G. Stock, professor of Irish poetry, was brought in a wheelchair into the ...

National Recitation Competition 2026: The top 10 participants will receive Certificate of Excellence and all valid participants will receive participation certificates.

The Poetry Out Loud competition will give South Dakota high school students a chance to showcase their talents for the state title on March 9 in Sioux Falls.

Enzo Campa has never written a poem in his life but he’s proving quite adept at delivering one. Campa and MaryJo Hoffman, the school’s English department head, will travel to Toronto next week where ...

Last week, Canada’s unofficial patron of poetry, Scott Griffin, unveiled a new effort to bring more poetry into the minds and everyday lives of Canadians. The founder of the $200,000 Griffin Poetry ...

On the evening of Oct. 13, dozens of students filed into Swartz Hall, escaping the rain to attend “Qahwa, Kalam, and Calligraphy,” a program hosted by the Harvard Divinity School. The event ...