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 ...

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 ...

Vincent D’Onofrio stood before me with his eyes closed. His black baseball cap partially shaded his face in the dark room, lit only by the art that he and fellow actor/artist Laurence Fuller—as the ...

And by opposing end them? The benefits of reciting poetry were not clear to me as a schoolboy forced to memorize verse by Shakespeare or Victor Hugo and voice it verbatim before a strict teacher, in ...

National Recitation Competition 2026: The top 10 participants will receive Certificate of Excellence and all valid ...

Armie Hammer braved the outdoors to recite some poetry. The “Call Me by Your Name” actor, 33, went to Central Park “weeks ago,” we’re told, to recite poet Wendy Cope’s “Valentine.” The result, which ...