The Vermilion Poetry Society has announced that it will host its first Poetry Slam Contest, according to a news release. The ...

Slam Connection, founded by Williamsburg poet laureate LaCroy Nixon, saw success at both the Virginia Team Poetry Slam ...

The 12 kids sat scattered in pews facing the podium, listening as their instructor went over details for the poetry slam that would cap off their three-day winter poetry camp. Emanuelee "Outspoken ...

Poetry slam is one of the few examples we have of a “language game” (to use Ludwig Wittgenstein’s famous term, but not exactly the way he means it) that is explicitly named as such.

Poetry, however, is her favorite medium, as she always tries to give her poems a hopeful ending, despite the struggle and hardship reflected in them, so people can know that things can get better.

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.” ...

Here's how to help the poemless: go to the poetry shelves in the children’s section of your local library. Grab a book by ...

Not that a difficult poem shouldn’t be written, I certainly write some, but I love that there are more poets out there in publishing, in poetry slams, in cowboy poetry gatherings, with poems ...

Smith took tonight, Sept. 15, 2023, to read some of her poems written on her phone. She’s been trying to record more poems in hopes of writing a book rather than performing them once. She said it ...

Presented by Spokane Public Radio, Poetry Moment is a program that showcases myriad poems as read by poets and poetry lovers from across the Inland Northwest — and occasionally beyond.Poetry ...

It's been 20 years since the first student poetry slam at Portland's McDaniel High School. That one slam eventually evolved into Verselandia, the citywide youth poetry competition.

Back when I chose my Classic poem, “I was in a Hurry” by Dunya Mikhail, I was struck by its powerful message of losing a country through the comparison of lottery tickets or Purgatory — and I was ...