Charissa and Josiah Cogan join Ben Willcox, (right) young adult librarian at the Nathan Hale Library, as he prepares for an Anonymous Poetry Contest for Teens, part of Teen Read Week. Poetry slams and ...

Fourth-grader Cade Maxwell stood confidently before a room filled with his peers from First Odessa Christian Academy and their parents and began to read a poem from his self-authored book, “The Buddy ...