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 ...

In New York City, today has officially been named "Poem In Your Pocket (PIYP) Day." This is the seventh annual PIYP Day in celebration of National Poetry Month in April. New York City urges ...

OAK RIDGE, Tenn. — A 16-year-old at Oak Ridge High School was given the Promising Young Writers Award after writing a poem about the 2016 Gatlinburg wildfires. Brooke Kizzire very vividly ...