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 ...

WILLIAMSBURG — A Williamsburg slam poetry team recently took first in a state slam poetry event, and then went on to place in the top 10 in the nation. Williamsburg’s Slam Connection was one of six ...

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 ...

The 16th annual Word Up Poetry Slam will begin at 6 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 24, in the lobby of the Judge William H. Inman ...

Got a few poems in your pocket? Now’s your chance to pull them out and be heard aloud. The Anton Art Center is holding its first ever “Poetry Slam” competition with local artists performing their ...

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.

On Friday, Feb. 21, the University of Massachusetts’ Center of Racial Justice and Youth Engaged Research and the Black Healing, Joy and Justice Collective held the second annual W.E.B. Du Bois Poetry ...

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 ...

Watermark's final spoken word Poetry SLAM! of 2025 will be held at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 20, at Fozzie's Smokin' Bar-B-Q, ...