Nearly a dozen middle and high school students got on stage today in hopes of their poetry performance getting themselves to ...

'Poetry Out Loud National Recitation Contest' ...

Spurning the iconoclastic free verse of many of his contemporaries, he held to an older tradition. He also wrote spirited ...

It’s been described as embarrassing, clichéd or “unhelpful singsong.” Many poets dislike it too, but it’s a style they’ve learned from each other.