Many of us are also experiencing our own shocks that echo that news of the day: If we are federal workers, we may have lost ...

Poets Safia Elhillo, Jamila Woods and members of the Stanford Spoken Word Collective shared poems both personal and political ...

The dialogue is both realist, full of the ejaculations and repetitions that characterize human speech, and poetic, with only the occasional anapest interrupting the poem’s iambic pentameter.

Mathews High School hosted the VHSL 1A/1B Speech Super Regionals on Saturday, welcoming teams from Appomattox Regional ...

Sophomore Cherlande Stout won the contest with the poem "Rise Up." Holland Middle School also celebrated Black History Month with a speech contest. HOLLAND — In recognition of Black History ...

Although best known as the author of the first poem composed by an African American ... "the fluency of her speech captivated all around her" -- and she used her skills a number of times in ...

Isabella Cotier By A.O. Scott Here’s a poem about patience, about self-control, about the need to conserve your energy and constrain your desire. Fittingly enough, it’s a proper old-school ...

Mr Chard said: "I think poems spark emotion in a different way. "It would be easy to write a motivational speech asking everyone to come and spend money locally but i think a poem kind of reaches ...