Public speaking is a daunting act for many. Some speakers worry about the audience while some worry about remembering ...

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 ...

In 2005, the National Endowment for the Arts, together with the Poetry Foundation, established Poetry Out Loud, a program intended to encourage “the nation’s youth to learn about great poetry through ...

I learned the poem by heart decades ago, and it is not likely to leave me until I leave. Catherine Robson’s extraordinary book, a feat of imagining as well as of scholarship, explores the memorization ...

When was the last time you memorized a poem? Right. Recitation is mostly a lost art of our forebears, but there’s a new movement bring it back, and it’s gaining steam. The national Poetry Out Loud ...

Growing up, kids spent a lot of time on the playground. (Though, we hope that is still happening today, in the digital era.) Doing so, there are many games, from blacktop kickball and clapping to the ...