Teachers can have students create comics based on poems to better understand their themes and spark meaningful conversation.

Generation Verb, a spoken word scholastic program that uses poetry, prose, and performance to encourage self-expression, ...

Here's how to help the poemless: go to the poetry shelves in the children’s section of your local library. Grab a book by ...

The Beastie Boys called it the “drop” and Carlos Andres Gomez knows it as “the Pinch,” but everyone knows the buildup to the moment the music pauses and then switches to the… ...

Using tone, gestures and inflection, students brought poetry selections to life during the Southwest Missouri Regional Competition of Poetry Out Loud. It was a competition where every single word ...

For the 20th annual Poetry Out Loud finals this week (May 5-7), 55 students, one champion from every state and American Samoa, the District of Columbia, Guam, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin ...

The 12 kids sat scattered in pews facing the podium, listening as their instructor went over details for the poetry slam that would cap off their three-day winter poetry camp. Emanuelee "Outspoken ...

April is National Poetry Month, a time to honor poetry in all forms and poets from all backgrounds. In honor of the celebration, Princeton Professor of Poetry Lynn Melnick offered reflections on the ...

“Poetry Out Loud” encourages high school students to learn about poetry through memorization, performance, and competition.

Every year, students across the country memorize and recite poems for local Poetry Out Loud competitions. But for deaf students, memorization is not the only challenge.

Out of 157,000 students who participated in Poetry Out Loud this school year, Wichita East High senior Ismail Saeed is one of 55 who advanced to the national finals in Washington, D.C. The winner ...