CLEVELAND, Ohio — I suspect most TV viewers enjoyed rooting for Faizan Zaki, a 13-year-old from Plano, Texas, as he stood on a stage last Thursday inside a National Harbor, Maryland, theater and ...

An event in Newport News on Saturday pulls together local young people, social action and the positive power of spoken poetry. The sixth edition of the Hampton Roads Youth Poetry Slam Fest kicks off 5 ...

Marc Kelly Smith had a great idea in the early 1980s: make poetry readings more palatable. He had thought, “Why is this artform that I have been writing and reading most of my life presented onstage ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Slam host Ngoma. Credit: Brian Slattery Photo Memories of the Children’s Crusade. A vision of ...

Poet Zachary Kluckman invites Logan into his home studio to share his creative process, recounting his journey from being an introverted student to performing slam poetry in front of big crowds.

On Sept. 29, the featured poet was Ashley Crooks-Allen, known under the stage name Lyrical Ley. Crooks-Allen earned their master’s degree from the University of Georgia in 2022 with a doctorate in ...

In the back room of the bookshop, there’s nowhere left to sit, barely a place to stand. The air is humid with anticipation and perspiration. The first poet steps up to the mike, hands quivering, to ...

The fourth Code Poetry Slam, a competition that encourages poets and programmers to integrate the performance aspect of coding with more traditional notions of poetry, will be held this February.

GREENFIELD — New events and old traditions will come to the boyhood home of James Whitcomb Riley this year, bringing community members of all ages together to enjoy poetry and history. The James ...

Mercedez Holtry, Founder, President, and Slam Master of Burque Revolt, is a guest contributor for the United State of Women Spearheaded by a woman and her community of fellow poets—who mainly identify ...