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As Rick Healey and his wife were taking a tour of the kindergarten class where their 5-year-old girl will go to school next fall, they came across a poem that stopped them in their tracks.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Elizabeth Mendez, a fourth grader at George Washington Carver Dual Language School, wrote a poem about being a bilingual student for Hispanic Heritage Month.
The 16-year-old from San Diego and four other high school students have been selected as the 2016 national student poets, and will spend the next year sharing their poetry, and encouraging others ...
Amanda Gorman responds to the restriction of her poem for President Biden’s inauguration, “The Hill We Climb,” at a Miami Lakes school library: “So they ban my book from young readers ...
She has written 15 poems, including the one about the beauty in her mother’s eyes, one about an old couple in matching clothes and two toddlers who excitedly showed off their toys.
Valentina Mena, a sophomore at Miami Beach Senior High School, in front of the “My Home, Mi Hogar” mural on Friday, May 5, 2023. A line from her poem is featured on the two water tanks.
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO)-- A Minnesota high school senior has taken home a $20,000 award after winning a national poetry competition. On Wednesday, Isabella Callery, who attends Arcadia Charter School ...