Springfield Area Arts Council organizes the Poetry Out Loud Contest annually. Mark Turcotte, the Illinois Poet Laureate, visits to share how poetry is thriving because it's more than dead poets.

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Activist and poet Amanda Gorman, who was the country's first ever National Youth Poet Laureate, recited an original poem before Sunday's Super Bowl game between the Kansas City Chiefs and Tampa Bay ...

Members of the Imperial family attend the New Year’s Poetry Reading at the Imperial Palace in Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo. - Pool photo/The Yomiuri Shimbun TOKYO: The annual Imperial ceremony of Utakai Hajime ...

Apr. 16—The pairing of poetry and Bible verses led to a poignant Good Friday service at the First United Methodist Church in Oneonta on April 15. Reverend Cynthia Walton-Leavitt, pastor at the First ...

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TOKYO - Japanese Emperor Naruhito expressed his hope for peace in Japan and the world in the new year in a poem recited at the annual New Year's Poetry Reading on Wednesday. The emperor, who attended ...