Slam poetry in Chicago is getting a shot in the arm from Frankie’s Tee, a media platform and talk show founded in 2024. Hosted by west-side natives Tanya “Tee” Smith and Frankie Fabre ...

The Academy Regional Poetry Slam, April 5, at the Academy of Music in Northampton, brings together some of the most talented ...

Poets from across the state will compete for top honors and cash prizes next month at the ninth annual All-Arizona Poetry Slam Championship hosted by the Maricopa ARTS Council.  The […] ...

The second annual Chicharra Poetry Slam Festival returns to Albuquerque for five days this week, drawing over 75 of the top poets and spoken word artists from 30 cities across the United States. Like ...

The second annual Chicharra Poetry Slam Festival returns to Albuquerque for five days this week, drawing over 75 of the top poets and spoken word artists from 30 cities across the United States.

As fighting in the Democratic Republic of Congo rages on, a growing number of women in the country are turning to slam poetry to voice their hopes, dreams and fears amid the violence. Among them is ...

“Poetry Live!” is not just named as such — event co-host and Jones lecturer Hieu Minh Nguyen invited the audience to engage “not as readers or as listeners, but as active participants in ...

With the theme of “Sweet Resistance,” this year’s Teen Spoken Word Festival will feature workshops, poetry slam competitions, performances, and a multitude of activities tailored to inspire and engage ...

Conceived in the '80s, propagated in the '90s and formalized in the 2000s, Slam Poetry is once again evolving, this time to meet the demands of the YouTube era. Since last year, Podslam.org has ...

Travelers have recently reported encountering “gate lice” and “seat squatters,” but there’s another controversial plane trend sparking fiery discussions on social media. Flyers are ...

The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “I have slept in many places, for years on mattresses that entered,” by Diane Seuss, and his own poem “This Is a Test of the Federal Emergency ...

Danny Sherrard, international award-winning poetry performer and co-founder of the Island Verse Literary Collective ...