Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On Tuesday's The Late Show John Krasinski joined Stephen Colbert in reciting Shakespeare's romantic "Sonnet 18" to their wives.

The premise: Get talented youngsters to perform onstage before judges and vie for a big prize — by declaiming classic poetry. Were it on network TV it might be called “American Idyll.” But it was a ...

Recitation, once required for a young person’s education, is making a comeback. On Tuesday at the Washington Region finals of the National Endowment for the Arts’ National Poetry Recitation Project, ...

And by opposing end them? The benefits of reciting poetry were not clear to me as a schoolboy forced to memorize verse by Shakespeare or Victor Hugo and voice it verbatim before a strict teacher, in ...

NAO, a sonnet-reciting robot, is part of a UTA interdisciplinary study on participatory arts and older adults. Sara Pintilie spintilie@star-telegram.com As we walked down to the University of Texas at ...