Young wordsmiths will learn how to write poetry as well as share their poetry slam style. Those who have previously written poems are more than welcome. The poetry slam is for children ages 7 - 12.

Take & Make Craft — The genealogy department at the Fort Smith Public Library invites visitors to stop by and pick up vintage ...

Growing up, kids are always encouraged to express themselves, this week, eighth-graders were given the chance to do so through the Sioux Falls School District's 8th annual poetry slam.

Dean Schillinger: Helping Kids Slam Diabetes – with Poetry Dean Schillinger, MD, a practicing physician at San Francisco General Hospital, worked with the slam poetry nonprofit, Youth Speaks, to ...

Other kids in the class wrote personal poems, too: about preparing for a parent’s divorce, being separated from family, or having people in class copy your work. But no poem resonated so much as ...

It is called a poetry slam. On this episode of Stories with a Heartbeat, we talk to poetry slam champion Dasan Ahanu to figure out what this poetic conflict is all about, and how to win.

When Playhouse Square discontinued its Slam U youth poetry program, 25-year-old Eric Odum launched One Mic Open. The monthly open mic and slam poetry event recently sent five young adults to the ...

Poetry Slam at All Souls BELLVILLE — The All Souls Congregation Poetry Slam will take place Sunday at 10:30 a.m. at All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church, 25 Church St. in Bellville.

Slam poetry was heavily influenced by the 1930s literary Negritude Movement of black writers and thinkers in France, as well as beat poetry from the East and West Coasts during the 1940s and 50s.

Bill Radke speaks with Ian Martinez and Elisa Chavez about identity and slam poetry. The duo are members of the Rain City Poetry Slam. They will be competing at the national slam poetry ...

INTERVIEW | Greg Jacobs on His Award-Winning High School Poetry Slam DocChicago is a highly segregated city, so it was strange to see such a diverse crowd of kids on the north side on a Saturday ...

NEW YORK — A young boy takes the stage. In a shaky voice, he says, “My name is Royce. My poem is titled, ‘White Boy Privilege.’” The video of the 14-year-old student Royce Mann reciting ...