Thousands of years ago, the ancient Greeks recited epic poems aloud. Actors have breathed life into Shakespeare’s soliloquies since the 16th century. Now, a pair of poet-educators are working to bring ...

GOLDEN VALLEY, Minn. --A Golden Valley teenager is a national champion - because of the powerful way she chooses her words. Armstrong High School senior Stella Wright put together a poem about ...

Once, when Ben Bernthal was selling street poetry — he takes three words from a stranger, and turns them into a poem on the spot — a man came up and told him to write a poem about “why it matters.” ...

Poetry digs deeper than written or spoken words for Doyle Rowland Jr. of Muskogee. “It’s more spiritual, because you have to ...

GRAND RAPIDS, MI - Kent County students and their teachers are learning that spoken word poetry is an excellent way to engage a class, to bring the text of a subject to life, and to encourage student ...

At school, I would always dread the poetry modules in English, trying to decipher meaning from stale texts and reading out my pained interpretation to a class half-asleep. It was only when I found ...