Lily Myers first started writing poetry in a creative writing class in her junior year of high school. She first encountered slam poetry during her first year at Wesleyan University. Then, as a ...

Tom Hanks Performs a Slam Poem about ‘Full House’ on ‘Fallon’ What do you do when you have a back-to-back Oscar winner on your late night talk show? Ask him to perform a slam poem about Full House, of ...

It’s been 20 years since Nancy Sullivan, a media specialist at Portland’s McDaniel High School, organized a poetry slam for students in the school’s library. That one slam eventually evolved into ...

Some days the hardest thing in the world is explaining Chicago to someone not from Chicago. Other days, particularly when you already live here, the hardest thing is seeing the city clearly, as vast ...

This was the loud and unapologetic environment I stepped into at Get Lit’s Classic Slam, a poetry competition where more than 50 high schools participate annually. It was, as Tiffany Snow, Get Lit’s ...

and Sundown Records will host a Poetry SLAM at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 20, at Fozzie's Smokin Bar-B-Q, 114 Third St. NW. "A poetry slam is a competitive art event in which poets perform spoken word ...

Poetry Center San Jose has a new home, and the timing could not be better. The center, which runs the popular and regularly occurring San Jose Poetry Slam, as well as the annual San Jose Poetry ...

The Kimball Art Center will add some audio to the visual with a slam poetry session on Friday. “Gazing Eyes and Giving Ears,” featuring the talents of locally based storytellers Sammi Walker, Chris ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — The fourth annual Food 4 Thought Poetry Slam is returning to the Virginia Museum of History and Culture on Saturday, Oct. 5. Ahead of the event, 8News got an inside look at what ...

At Piano Slam 2024, then junior Edwina Tony from Miami Norland Senior High passionately delivers her spoken word poem, “From Permed to Proud.” Poetry combined with hip-hop, classical and pop music has ...

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.” The music-poetry mashup is at the ...