Corrected: An earlier version of this story incorrectly listed the number of performers who could qualify for prizes of $1,000-$20,000, plus money for their schools, in the national Poetry Out Loud ...

It would seem that, for a poet, nothing could top being asked to pen and then recite a poem for a presidential inauguration. But for Richard Blanco, who got such an honor in 2013, when he read his ...

Jose Bello recited a poem called 'Dear America' and was detained two days later. An undocumented immigration activist was freed from an ICE detention center in Southern California nearly three months ...

Amanda Gorman, the country’s first-ever National Youth Poet Laureate, made history again Sunday by becoming the first person to recite a poem during a Super Bowl pregame ceremony. Gorman, a ...

One tribute to the late John Lewis began by noting his love of W. E. Henley’s “Invictus”; it seems to have been Nelson Mandela’s favorite too, as affirmed in Morgan Freeman’s reading of the poem.

In November, Nicki Minaj raised a few eyebrows when she recited Maya Angelou’s poem “Still I Rise” during A&E’s Shining A Light: A Concert for Progress on Race in America. Social media erupted with ...

Gorman shared her new poem on Instagram. Amanda Gorman is ringing in the new year with a new poem. The National Youth Poet Laureate, who is most famous for her poem "The Hill We Climb," which she ...

A dramatic recitation of one of Walt Whitman’s poems will be held at the Jackson Center, helping to commemorate the anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s death. Submitted photo A dramatic recitation of one ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. BROOKLYN — “I see a Vice President that ...

Sukmawati Sukarnoputri, sister of former Indonesian President Megawati Sukarnoputri, talks to reporters in Jakarta, Indonesia April 4, 2018. REUTERS/Beawiharta By Agustinus Beo Da Costa and Kanupriya ...