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 ...

Calling all Ohio high school teachers and arts organization leaders! Ready to inspire the next generation of performers, poets and public speakers? Registration is NOW OPEN for the 2025–2026 season of ...

In the novelist Barbara Kingsolver’s timely forthcoming collection of poems, “How to Fly (In Ten Thousand Easy Lessons),” one section of potent how-tos help guide readers through awkward, complicated ...

(Mizzima/IFEX) – The following is a 10 April 2007 statement from Mizzima News, an interim member of IFEX: Recitation of poems by Burma’s greatest poet banned The ...

A brisk little essay by Jim Holt in the New York TImes tells of the ease with which verse can be burned into one’s cortex: [T]he key to memorizing a poem painlessly is to do it incrementally, in tiny ...

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 ...