Both Georgia and Arkansas have included poetry-recitation requirements in their proposed new English Language Arts standards. Should those standards be approved in their current form, American ...

I was a first-grader in a suburban city in southwestern Damascus when I heard my school was hosting a poetry recitation contest. It was then that I began memorizing poems and enthusiastically reciting ...

Just one beautiful line of poetry can stay with you forever. So feel inspired with these quotes from poets including Rupi Kaur, Sylvia Plath and Audre Lorde. “Poetry begins with a lump in the ...

The Postgraduate Punjabi Department of Khalsa College, Patiala, Punjabi Sahitya Sabha and Bhasha Manch organised a poetry recitation competition today in which 25 students from different ...

That’s where Thanksgiving poems come in. Stirring words from some ... And feast his eye with yellow hops and sheets of bearded grain; The kindly one whose bosom aches to see a dog unfed May ...

The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “I wonder if I will miss the moss,” by Jane Mead, and his own poem “Mother.” The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss her translation ...

This event provides students with an opportunity to engage with literature, practice public speaking, and build confidence through poetry recitation. The competition takes place Dec. 20 from 5 to 6 ...

Learn about rhythm in poetry and how it can be used as device which has an effect on the reader. How to understand open and closed form in poetry Closed form poetry uses stricts patterns of rhymes ...

I Am Maria: My Poems and Reflections on Heartbreak, Healing, and Hope' will hit bookshelves on April 1, 2025 Bailey Richards is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since ...

What I love about poetry is that you can perform it anywhere. There are performances spaces all around us. In the bedroom. In the playground. I ….was…. at…. the ...

Instead, it is a multi-modal art film comprised mainly of distinct performance pieces combining poetry recitation, moving and still images (archival and contemporary), acting and original music.