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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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

We may be telling this with a sigh somewhere ages and ages hence, but for now the academic world is hyped about a previously obscure Robert Frost poem that a University of Virginia graduate student ...

(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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. MEDFORD, Mass. (AP) — A recent Massachusetts ...