SALEM, Ore. — Bena Rodecap, a junior at Grant High School, has been named Oregon's 2025 Poetry Out Loud champion after receiving the top score at Saturday's statewide contest, hosted by the ...

The speakers were made up of 15 seniors at Anacostia High School who delivered powerful and personal poetry. "What you don’t know by looking at me is that both my parents are locked up," said Ra ...

As a poet myself now, that fascination with the written word remains, although it has evolved from limericks to sonnets and free-verse love poems as well. I often hear from peers and students that ...

Instead of defaulting to the notifications on my phone, poetry has inspired me to begin the day in a different way. By Charley Locke Most mornings, as soon as I wake up, I feel the pull of my phone.