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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 ...

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 ...

Reciting poems that touched on the complexities of her Mexican-American heritage, a St. Francis DeSales High School senior recently won Ohio's Poetry Out Loud competition and will take part in the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Karson Pederson of Watford City, N.D., won first place in the North Dakota State Poetry Out Loud National Recitation Contest in Bismarck by reciting "Mrs. Caldera's House of Things" and "Domestic ...

SAGINAW, Mich. (WJRT) - A unique competition was held in mid-Michigan on Sunday. Sunday was the first Poetry Out Loud recitation contest. It was held from 2 to 4 p.m. at the Bradley Theater in the ...

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 ...