Sylvie Terjesen, a Canyon Crest Academy junior, won the regional Poetry Out Loud recitation competition Tuesday. Next she’ll ...

What’s Cool At School? Poetry out loud! Khloe, a student at the Doral Academy’s Red Rock campus was one of the 6 contestants in Tuesday’s Clark County ...

It’s been described as embarrassing, clichéd or “unhelpful singsong.” Many poets dislike it too, but it’s a style they’ve learned from each other.

Nearly a dozen middle and high school students got on stage today in hopes of their poetry performance getting themselves to ...

Los Angeles Lakers center Jaxson Hayes and San Antonio Spurs wing Carter Bryant punched their tickets to the 2026 NBA Slam ...

The northern regional finals, slated for 5 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 3, at the Mark and Emily Turner Memorial Library in Presque Isle, features students who are competing for a spot at the state-level ...

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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Honolulu Theatre for Youth (HTY) and the Hawai’i State Foundation on Culture and the Arts (SFCA) have announced that the 2026 ...

<P> Chopticon High School junior Mariah Demirkan stepped on stage after school one day last week to recite two poems.<P> It was not the memorization that made it hard, she said, but simply standing in ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. – Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown, Nancy Wells, the University at Buffalo’s vice president for philanthropy and alumni relations, and Robin Shulze, dean of the UB College of Arts and Sciences, ...

What an a-muse-ment park! Local bards will take their verse to new heights by reciting Coney Island-inspired poetry to thrillseekers on the Wonder Wheel at Deno’s Wonder Wheel Amusement Park on May 8.