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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 recitation contest ...

The Karamay Poetry Recitation Contest, themed "Song of Karamay", came to an end at the Shujian Garden in Karamay, Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, on Aug 23. Some 73 contestants were divided into a ...

“Twas the night before Christmas…” There is disagreement about who wrote those words. A few say the poem was written by a ...

This month, America celebrates the 50th anniversary of hip-hop. Most of the country first encountered this musical revolution with the release of the national hit “Rapper’s Delight” in 1979. But it ...

When Kareem Sayegh recited Allen Ginsberg’s poem “A Supermarket in California” in the first round of the “Poetry Out Loud: National Recitation Contest” state finals held in Springfield on Tuesday, he ...

Cornelius Eady, a National Book Award finalist, shared an excerpt from “Proof,” an original poem he has written for Zohran ...

With the aim of fostering human values through literary practice, a poetry recitation session was hosted in the capital by Bashundhara Shuvosangho ...