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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 ...

ARGUSVILLE, N.D. - A high-school senior here has been busy reciting poems in front of mirrors, family and friends preparing for a national poetry competition in Washington this week. Northern Cass ...

Mar. 12—CHAMPAIGN — Champaign Central senior Wade Schacht stood with his head down on a stage in a Parkland College lecture hall recently and prepared mentally to play the role of a serial killer.

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 ...

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 ...

SPRINGFIELD - A high school student from Springfield has been named Illinois' winner in the Poetry Out Loud: National Recitation Contest. Springfield Area Arts Council officials say Mariah Brooks, ...

Mississippi's 2023 Poetry Out Loud Recitation Contest. High school students from across the state compete for a chance to represent Mississippi in the National Recitation Contest in Washington, D.C.

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 ...