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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...