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 ...

WoMag editor Victor D. Infante had never heard of Worcester when he met the 1996 Worcester Poetry Slam Team in Oregon. Then ...

Samantha Bucci has a passion for poetry slams and spoken word, and sharing a space for poetry, especially in the Fitchburg ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A slam poet, or spoken word artist, can be a social activist, a stage performer and, above all, a passionate poet at the core. Slam poetry is a fairly new, unique form of expression that began with ...