A 16-year-old at Oak Ridge High School was given the Promising Young Writers Award after writing a poem about the 2016 Gatlinburg wildfires.

16 years after enjoying a high school literary education rich in poetry, I am a literature teacher who barely teaches it. So far this year, my 12th grade literature students have read nearly ...

A Windsor High School junior will take his demanding stage presence to a national audience, performing poetry that speaks to his identity as a person of color. “I am the Smoke King. I am Black,” ...

Huong Le and Lilly Penick are both 17-year-0ld juniors who attend Gulf High School in New Port Richey, Florida, and participate in their school’s International Baccalaureate program. They worked ...

Grant High School junior Bena Rodecap wins Oregon's Poetry Out Loud championship and will compete nationally in Washington, D.C. this May.

To the editor: My 1st period English students and I wrote this poem hoping change people’s view of Watts. We are part of Jordan High School, located in a beautiful community in need of ...

A racist message, containing threats of violence towards Black people, has been circulating around Leicester High School.

A 17-year old high school student has been suspended for a poem she wrote about the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Courtni Webb wrote the poem in a personal notebook about Adam ...

Morning Edition's resident poet Kwame Alexander compiled your poems inspired by memories of home, and the final crowdsourced poem is full of rich details of where you're from.

Editor’s note: This poem is by Naugatuck High School student Cassie Napoli. It is part of her project in Contemporary Issues. She notes she was asked to create an original piece that consisted ...

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 ...

This poem got an Ohio high school football player kicked off the team and suspended from school for four days. (Photo: FOX8.com) ...