Each year as part of NCW, ACS sponsors an illustrated poem contest for K-12 students in the US. Please read below for the rules, deadlines, and submission information, and check out the winning poems ...

Congratulations to the winners of the 2025 Chemists Celebrate Earth Week Illustrated Poem Contest! As part of CCEW 2025, students in grades K–12 were invited to creatively express this year’s theme, ...

NEW YORK — There was expectation in the room that someone would deliver a poem as lovely as a tree. Or not. The expectation was about choosing the worst of the worst — the worst bad poem of the year.

A small museum in rural Mayes County is once again inviting Oklahomans of all ages to use their written words to describe ...

It surprises me that John T. Casteen IV and Ted Genoways discredit Foetry.com, while calling for many changes that we have been advocating since the site’s debut (“Contesting the Poetry Contests,” The ...

In little more than a year, the virtual community at Foetry.com has managed to cause a remarkable stir. The Web site has accused several prominent poets and presses of conflicts of interest, and its ...

Throughout history poetry and justice have seamlessly gone hand in hand. From the classic’s of Maya Angelou to the 2021 inaugural poem by Amanda Gorman, the convergence of poetry, social justice, and ...

The Mississippi State University Libraries will hold its Third Annual Poetry Contest for Undergraduates as a way to celebrate National Poetry Month in April. Undergraduates are invited to submit a ...

Bucks County Community College, which has been nurturing writers for more than 50 years, calls on creative young people to enter the 35th annual Bucks County High School Poet of the Year contest for ...