Marc Kelly Smith had a great idea in the early 1980s: make poetry readings more palatable. He had thought, “Why is this artform that I have been writing and reading most of my life presented onstage ...

You might not imagine poets, those long-haired, dreamy bohemians, as aggressive competitors. But at the National Poetry Slam (August 1-6)—taking place in Georgia for the first time this year—more than ...

At least four hundred poets have descended on Denver, heads full of memorized verses, for the National Poetry Slam.For those who can't distinguish a slam poem from a verbal fistfight or the recitation ...

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 ...

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.

In honor of National Poetry Month, broadcaster and poetry lover, Camille Conte, is organizing a poetry slam on Tuesday, April 2 at Main Event Grill. She was part of the Alaska Poetry League in the 90s ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Slam host Ngoma. Credit: Brian Slattery Photo Memories of the Children’s Crusade. A vision of ...

Typically, a poetry slam is when writers compete against each other by reading their original work, which is judged on a numerical scale by selected audience members. Writing workshops and open mics ...

DuWaup's Cincinnati Poetry Slam will be held Saturday, Nov. 12, from 5 to 9 p.m. Poets, patrons and small business vendors will have the chance to connect at Artville to network and look at ...

Let’s play a word association game. What’s do you think when I say, “Kansas City?” Barbecue? The Royals? How about jazz? Now what about when I say “Jazz,” what do you think? It probably isn’t poetry.

This time, last year, Aleph Book Company had brought out a publication of Jeet Thayil’s oeuvre of poetry. For an event of such importance, there was an unsettling sense of finality in the news ...