When Olivia Vella’s seventh grade teacher asked every student to write a monologue on a topic about which they were passionate, Vella immediately knew what she wanted to say. She wanted to tell girls ...

The first slam poem Bianca Phipps wrote was about a boy. She’d broken up with him but didn’t say everything she needed to. So she said it in a poem, on a stage, in front of strangers. “It’s terrifying ...

Dean Schillinger, MD, a practicing physician at San Francisco General Hospital, worked with the slam poetry nonprofit, Youth Speaks, to create the award-winning “The Bigger Picture" campaign. The ...

The dozen or so students and three teachers in the choir room at Lincoln College Preparatory Academy sat silently as one teen started her slam poem. Its title: “An open letter to my abuser, I mean my ...

As we continue to navigate the global pandemic, parents and students are clamoring for new experiences and ways to connect with friends, old and new. Children's Theatre of Elgin has answered that call ...

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 ...

Come show your support for students representing wards 5, 7 and 8 as they take the stage for the second night of the DC Scores Poetry Slam. The event will be from 5 to 7 tonight at Gallaudet ...

To compare slam poetry to the works of Byron and Wordsworth and Frost and Whitman is to compare a blast furnace to a candle. It is raw and personal and loud. It can be uncomfortable and infuriating ...

Sometimes small changes can make or break a night. SLAM!, (Soul, Love, And Meaning), Boston College’s spoken word club, was supposed to host its first Sunset SLAM! of the year outside. Unfortunately, ...

On Saturday night at the Strand Theatre in Dorchester, the top teams in the Louder Than a Bomb youth poetry slam festival competed for the state championship. Through their work, the poets presented ...