Using tone, gestures and inflection, students brought poetry selections to life during the Southwest Missouri Regional Competition of Poetry Out Loud. It was a competition where every single word ...

Poetry Out Loud is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire TV, Amazon Fire Tablet, Roku, Samsung Smart TV, and ...

Fredericksburg Academy’s Nadia Shalaby accepts her award as winner of the 2025 Poetry Out Loud state finals. Photo: Rebecca J. Barnabi/AFP Nadia Shalaby of Fredericksburg Academy attended Poetry Out ...

Leah Hochhalter of Valley City High School is the 2025 North Dakota Poetry Out Loud state champion. Poetry Out Loud is a high school program that encourages students to learn about poetry while they ...

CHEYENNE – The annual Poetry Out Loud State Finals Competition was hosted by the Wyoming Arts Council on March 3 at the Surbrugg/Prentice Auditorium at Laramie County Community College. Alex Brady, a ...

Sydney Frost recites Siren Song by Margaret Atwood with ease. With minute hand movements and calculated inflection, her performance of the poem lasts no longer than two minutes, but the room is silent ...

Rize Simmons is on a winning streak. The Windsor High School senior and two-time state champion of the Poetry Out Loud competition is focusing on his preparation for Nationals next month, set in ...

Whitefish High School senior, Jake Dunker, won the state Poetry Out Loud competition in Helena last month. He will compete at the national level in May. (Eric Heidle photo) Jake Dunker shares a high ...

Out of the 157,000 students that participated in Poetry Out Loud nationwide this school year, 55 are now advancing to the 2025 National Finals May 6-7 in Washington, DC, where one will win the ...

Portland junior Bena Rodecap was crowned as Oregon’s top youth poetry reciter on Saturday at the 2025 Poetry Out Loud state contest in Salem. Rodecap, who attends Grant High School, will represent ...