Sometimes small changes can make or break a night. SLAM!, (Soul, Love, And Meaning), Boston College’s spoken word club, was supposed to host its first Sunset SLAM! of the year outside. Unfortunately, ...
Seasoned and amateur poets alike are standing behind microphones all over Utah to share a taste of their passion: slam poetry. Many BYU students have found common ground in this increasingly popular ...
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 ...
When Olivia Vella’s seventh grade teacher asked every student to write a monologue on a topic about which they were passionate, Vella immediately knew what she wanted to say. She wanted to tell girls ...
Nia Lewis hated dodging strangers making leering comments on the street. First the catcalls made her angry. Then they inspired her. “You must understand that a body is just a body, a silhouette isn’t ...
On a dark Monday night, the dazzling bulb lights hanging from the ceiling of Midnight Coffee shone through the streets of ...
In Trigger Warning, her award-winning poem, Portland poet Jordan Wolmut dissects the concept of a slam poetry competition while taking part in one. In the poem, Benson High School senior Wolmut ...
When poetry becomes a team sport, says performance poet Jesse Parent, everyone has different strengths. “There’s a lot of emotional value, and there’s a lot of content value,” Parent said of the ...
Rochester Institute of Technology’s Poetry Slam team is ready to rhyme, as they compete on the national stage for the very first time. Five students from throughout the university will represent RIT ...
Jackson Neal, a rising senior at Austin High School in Sugar Land, first discovered slam poetry - a type of dramatic, spoken poetry performed in competition - on YouTube. He performed his first slam ...
Glittering metaphors and powerful performance are the key factors to any successful spoken word poem. The poet behind the work is equally important — they bring the personality and stories to the ...
Palmore is also co-directing after just finishing a successful run in 4th Wall’s “Between Riverside and Crazy.” He has won ...
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