Graduating from high school is a major milestone! And whether you're a grad yourself, or you want to find a graduation poem to express your sentiments for someone special, our high school graduation ...

Today’s lively graduation-week Poem of the Day, by our poetry editor, Joseph Bottum (b. 1959), author most recently of the poetry collection “Spending the Winter,” forms the third movement of a ...

Between 1898 and 1905 — a teenager, still living at his St. Louis home — the young T.S. Eliot (1888–1965) studied at the Smith Academy, a college-preparatory school run by Washington University. And ...

There’s no better way to head into Memorial Day weekend than with some inspiration from a passionate speech on education. Earlier this week, Donovan Livingston, who graduated with his master’s degree ...

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One Harvard graduate’s convocation address went above and beyond when he replaced the usual speech format with a spoken-word poem. Donovan Livingston, who went on to receive his master's at Harvard’s ...

MEDFORD, Mass.MEDFORD, Mass. — A recent Massachusetts college graduate believes she has discovered a secret message in the epic poem “Paradise Lost,” by John Milton. The Boston Globe reports ...

(CBS) -- Harvard University graduate and national youth poet laureate Amanda Gorman stole the show at the presidential inauguration with a powerful and history-making poem. Now she's set to perform at ...

BOSTON (CBS) - Harvard graduate Amanda Gorman, who grabbed the national spotlight after her powerful poetry reading at President Joe Biden's inauguration, read another poem before Super Bowl LV ...