Long Island high-school officials refused to publish a 16-year-old student’s poem about the police-custody ... says she wrote “Derek Chauvin’s Ode to George Floyd: A Dark Sonnet ...

In 2006, The Poetry Center launched its first annual Poetry Prize for High School Girls in Massachusetts (open to sophomores and juniors); since then, our contest has expanded into the other New ...

Huong Le and Lilly Penick are both 17-year-0ld juniors who attend Gulf High ... school’s International Baccalaureate program. They worked together on a writing assignment, composing a telling ...