Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mar. 16—BEMIDJI — Watermark's first spoken word Poetry SLAM! of the year will be held at 7 p.m. on Thursday, March 26, at Fozzie's ...

Illustration by Adriana Georgopulos. (Saul Willams photo by Walter McBride / Getty Images / Ntozake Shange photo by Daniel Zuchnik / WireImage) the greatest Americans have not been born yet they are ...

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 ...

On July 18, rapper Showtyme hypes up the crowd during Pharoahe Monch’s set at the Life is Living Festival in Chicago’s Clarendon Park. ‘It’s difficult because I feel like a lot of poets ...

Jordan Wolmut performing "Trigger Warning." Credit: Virtulandia! recording screen grab, via Literary Arts. In Trigger Warning, her award-winning poem, Portland poet Jordan Wolmut dissects the concept ...

“Our country is in seeeerious trouble,” Zollar refrains throughout the video, produced by Above Average, an online comedy video network. (Zollar credits Above Average writer Glenn Boozan for the line ...

Most performers at the Uptown Poetry Slam get one poem; Del Valle, who made a surprise appearance for National Poetry Month, still had the crowd rapt after eight.

If K Lange had to guess, they’d say their first slam poem performance wasn’t very good. When they were in high school, Lange didn’t think they had much more to write in a poem than the crush they had ...

It’s been 20 years since Nancy Sullivan, a media specialist at Portland’s McDaniel High School, organized a poetry slam for students in the school’s library. That one slam eventually evolved into ...

Some days the hardest thing in the world is explaining Chicago to someone not from Chicago. Other days, particularly when you already live here, the hardest thing is seeing the city clearly, as vast ...

Middle and high school students from all over Miami-Dade County’s public schools capped off National Poetry Month on Apr. 18 in an electric performance of Piano Slam’s “Searching for Home” inspired by ...