MIDLAND, Texas — Does your child love words and using them in poetic ways? Then they may have fun with other word lovers at the Poetry Slam for kids and tweens. The Midland Library at the Plaza, will ...

When McDaniel High School librarian Nancy Sullivan originally started the first youth poetry slam competitions in Portland in 2005, she didn’t have any concept of the new event’s staying power.

Dean Schillinger, MD, a practicing physician at San Francisco General Hospital, worked with the slam poetry nonprofit, Youth Speaks, to create the award-winning “The Bigger Picture" campaign. The ...

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Poetry is alive and well in Sedona and the Verde Valley, exemplified by events over the last week. At the dedication on ...