The first Salish Sea Poetry Festival opens tomorrow across Downtown Bellingham, with readings, food, visual arts and even ...

Slam poetry in Chicago is getting a shot in the arm from Frankie’s Tee, a media platform and talk show founded in 2024. Hosted by west-side natives Tanya “Tee” Smith and Frankie Fabre, Frankie’s Tee ...

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 ...

As a young man, growing up on the city’s Southwest Side, Marc Kelly Smith aspired, for a very short time, to a career in architecture. That didn’t quite work out but Smith would eventually find not ...

As the Twin Cities’ slam poetry scene rebuilds, BuckSlam — a new organization dedicated to the style of competitive poetry performance — has quickly established itself at the forefront. Now, as its ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — I suspect most TV viewers enjoyed rooting for Faizan Zaki, a 13-year-old from Plano, Texas, as he stood on a stage last Thursday inside a National Harbor, Maryland, theater and ...

WYNDMERE, N.D. (Valley News Live) - It was a big night in Wyndmere on Monday, Oct. 28. Wyndmere’s First Annual Poetry Slam brought in a crowd, as 23 student poets read their original works to a crowd ...

The second annual Chicharra Poetry Slam Festival returns to Albuquerque for five days this week, drawing over 75 of the top poets and spoken word artists from 30 cities across the United States. Like ...

Shawn Douglas Jr., a senior at a local New Haven high school, had a stutter growing up. On Saturday evening, he won third place at a local poetry slam, securing his spot to represent Connecticut in a ...

Washburn University is raising awareness about domestic violence this week. Students wrote poems on Oct. 21 as part of the “Ichabods Speak Out,” event and learned about counseling services at the ...