Established in 1996 by the Academy of American Poets, National Poetry Month is an annual celebration held every April that ...

S HREVEPORT, La. — Kicking off National Poetry Month, the renowned spoken word artist Poetic X joins me for a conversation about his 6th annual poetry festival, upcoming documentary, and how the ...

One of the first events launching the festival was the Teen Spoken-Word Poetry & Monologue Competition, titled “Word-Slay: Standing on Words.” Event coordinator for Word-Slay: Standing on ...

said she was "proud" of the community that the spoken word event had created Spoken word poetry, or slam poetry, is an art form that allows the poet to share their point of view and express their ...