The finals of the Poetry Out Loud high school poetry competition take place in Washington, D.C., this week. NPR asked some of this year's competitors about how to master a poem.

The program’s name draws ... events called poetry slams. Since Dranoff has its origins in classical piano music, the decision was made to fuse the words piano with slam to create Piano Slam ...

But the real question is, would YOU rather break the chain of hate and make the world a better place? That's exactly what my ... a poem expressing how terrorists divided the nation in the name ...

These poems are an ode to the feelings experienced on the fringes of what's socially accepted, but that doesn't make them any ...

A lot of us learned about the revolutionary sprint through Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s iconic poem ... name rhymes with “hear.” “And if Longfellow had chosen to write, ‘Listen, my ...

San Lorenzo Valley High School junior Finn Maxwell, 16, and Dina Lusztig Noyes, 18, a senior at Pacific Collegiate School, ...

Kaleb, a boy with autism featured in “Unleashing Hope,” deals with emotional dysregulation. His family talks about how he was ...

Swami Vivekananda as the nation celebrates his 110th anniversary Man comes from God in the beginning in the middle he becomes man and in the end he goes back to GodHe is an Acharya through whom the Di ...

Hundreds of millions of poetic words have been written throughout history. Navigate your way into this beautiful art form ...

Shaeleigh — gave me anxiety because I had to spell it out. A teacher taught me the importance of standing up for it.

Students were asked to create an original lyric poem consisting of four stanzas of four lines each. The winning entry at each grade level could win a cash award, and if the poem was written in cursive ...