Beck Junior High sixth-grade teachers recently hosted their first Poetry Slam at the StarBeck Cafe in the school library. Sixth-graders learned that poetry is a literary work in which special ...

It has inspired about 80 sixth graders from one of America's poorest neighborhoods, in the city that is the world's hot spot for coronavirus infection, to write their own version.

The program will culminate in “Schooled on Poetry,” with the students reading their works at 7 p.m. May 3, in the Riffe Center’s Davidson Theatre, 77 S. High St.

MONICA: What's another poem that she's written that you've drawn for, ... It was in 5th grade. I'm in 6th grade now. It was like, The way the coat sparkled. the way the green eyes glimmered.