Since spring, we've been building a robust collection of recitations by students from across the U.S. who competed in Poetry Out Loud in the 2019-2020 school year. Below is just a sample of these video recitations.
With support from a recently awarded Our Town grant, the oral history collection on the wildfires that tore through Great Smoky Mountains National Park and the surrounding region in late 2016 will be complemented by the arts, giving the public a diff...
To celebrate both National Poetry Month and Poetry Out Loud (POL) we asked poet and National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow Adrian Matejka to share with us his thoughts on what makes POL such a vital program. Here's what he had to say.