The state finals champion receives a $1,000 cash award. They will also travel to Washington D.C. for the national finals from May 5-7th.

Even if you never pick up a pen, observing your surroundings like a poet is a good habit to develop, author Lola Haskins ...

This National Poetry Day Live Lesson for KS2/2nd Level pupils explores the theme of 'change' and includes reading, performance and critical analysis of similes and metaphors. The programme ...

Rose worked with the Boutelle-Day Poetry Center to found Nine Syllables Press, igniting interest across campus and the region. Read the Article Learn More About the Press “The Poem I Wish I Had Read” ...

All children were expected to learn many things by rote, including poetry. The Ancient Greeks felt that learning poetry improved the mind, and Athenian schoolboys learned Homer. By the 1940s ...

Since 1997, The Poetry Center at Smith College has been devoted to promoting poetry within our vibrant campus as well as the wider New England community. Now officially named The Boutelle-Day Poetry ...