The Kimball Art Center will add some audio to the visual with a slam poetry session on Friday. “Gazing Eyes and Giving Ears,” featuring the talents of locally based storytellers Sammi Walker, Chris ...

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 ...

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.

It’s time for a poetry slam revival, according to Boston Poetry Slam producer Myles Taylor. Slam poetry, which is a competitive event where poets recite spoken-word poetry in front of an audience and ...

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 ...

One by one, poets shrug their way to the stage, pausing for a breath before diving in. Without fail, someone from the crowd offers the rallying cry: "Let's go, poet!" The room answers in its own ...

WILLIAMSBURG — This Friday, Williamsburg will be center stage for the state’s biggest slam poetry event when the Virginia Team Poetry Slam Championship comes to the Kimball Theatre. Originally called ...

When McDaniel High School librarian Nancy Sullivan originally started the first youth poetry slam competitions in Portland in 2005, she didn’t have any concept of the new event’s staying power.

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Get ready for Denver to battle Colorado Springs. On January 8 at 7 p.m. at Lulu’s in downtown Colorado Springs, Colorado Springs Poetry Slam will host its ...

Poetry is a powerful, multifaceted force, and the Orange County Regional Youth Slam Event, an annual high school poetry slam hosted by the Orange County School of the Arts in Santa Ana, undoubtedly ...

Poetry combined with hip-hop, classical and pop music has young poets competing for prizes from $100 to $1,000 at this year’s Dranoff 2 Piano Fusion “Piano Slam.” The music-poetry mashup is at the ...