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 ...

Vice President Kamala Harris was once the inspiration of a poem describing law school as a slave ship, written and performed in honor of her graduation from the University of California Hastings Law ...

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 ...

At the commencement ceremony for Harvard's Graduate School of Education, masters candidate Donovan Livingston blew his peers away with a spoken word poem on oppression, and the long road which led ...

In her inaugural poem "The Hill We Climb", Amanda Gorman calls on Americans to "rebuild, reconcile, and recover in every known nook of our nation in every corner called our country." A Miami-Dade ...

Parents are up in arms online over a poem recited by pupils during a recent PP2 graduation ceremony In the poem titled "I struggle alone," the youngsters criticise their parents for spending too much ...