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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This year, the annual Poetry Out Loud competition will continue in Santa Barbara County through a virtual program sponsored by Corazón del Pueblo: The Cultural and Creative Arts Center of the Santa ...

Earlier this week, 53 students from around the nation gathered in Washington for the 2010 Poetry Out Loud National Recitation Contest, an annual event that encourages the love of spoken word among ...

The Oregon Arts Commission, in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts and the Poetry Foundation, brings Poetry Out Loud to 29 high schools in 21 communities this year. The program, now ...

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 ...