Performance poetry has its own set of considerations as distinguished from those that apply to what is now called “page poetry” — or that which we’re more familiar with, what we see ...

If your image of a poetry reading is a quiet, genteel affair, you’ve obviously never been to a Broken Mic reading. The weekly open-mic event in downtown Spokane operates by different rules ...

It was performance poetry at its best - serious, sly, passionate, playful and lacking the self-righteous pretensions that have often marred the form.

“Performance poetry allows you to relate more and connect to the poem,” Stepter said, “And instead of reading it with my own voice and my own cadence I am visualizing what (the author) experienced, ...

Powerful imagery presented in words sung, spoken, and spit out is the shtick of I Was Born With Two Tongues, the Chicago-based Pan Asian spoken word group presented by the New WORLD Theater at Bowker ...

Performance poetry conjures up images of po-faced writers declaiming depressing verse. Could a young collective bring some humour to the spoken word? Holly Williams takes a masterclass ...

The performance poetry scene is in excellent health. Daisy Bowie-Sell asks what everyone is getting excited about.

Performance poetry has come a long way since its alternative 1960s roots, but it still falls foul of traditionalists. On the eve of National Poetry Day, Peter Howarth looks at how the genre is ...