TOKYO: The annual Imperial ceremony of Utakai Hajime, or the New Year's Poetry Reading, was held at the Imperial Palace in ...

Students at St. Johnsbury Academy recently recited poems during Chapel as part of the Poetry Out Loud Contest. They’ll return ...

Japanese Emperor Naruhito expressed his hope for peace in Japan and the world in the new year in a poem recited at the annual ...

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A K-8 school in Florida’s Miami-Dade County has prohibited its elementary students from reading several of its library’s books. The banned works include Amanda Gorman’s, “The Hill We Climb.” She ...

Mar. 23—As Wica-ta-wi Hoksina Brown inhabits the poem that won him the state Poetry Out Loud championship, he does so carefully, his voice almost conversational at first, then growing in strength and ...

The greatest New Year’s honor that can befall a Japanese is to have his poem recited to His Imperial Majesty the Emperor Hirohito. Less than ten poems are recited. All must be on the same subject ...