On Wednesday, March 18, poets and community members will gather at the Albuquerque Museum as the kickoff event for the third annual Chicharra Poetry Slam Festival. The Sound of Cicadas: A Poetry ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Some days the hardest thing in the world is explaining Chicago to someone not from Chicago. Other days, particularly when you ...

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 ...

I'm currently taking a slam poetry class, and we learned about keys to performing orally, as well as the components of a powerful slam poem according to Marc Smith. Ever since I learned those keys, ...

The 2017 All City Teen Poetry Slam Festival was held over two weekends in early April with the theme “Here Still.” The finals on April 8 were a tribute to the city’s resilience after the summer of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sep. 11—BEMIDJI — Watermark's first spoken word Poetry SLAM! of the season will be held at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 18, at Fozzie ...

This was the loud and unapologetic environment I stepped into at Get Lit’s Classic Slam, a poetry competition where more than 50 high schools participate annually. It was, as Tiffany Snow, Get Lit’s ...

Mizzou Black Creatives hosted the Blackity Black Poetry Slam on Monday at the Black Culture Center in Columbia. Nine students performed at the event. As Mizzou Black Creatives continues to celebrate ...

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 ...

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 ...