It's not often that "thinking inside the box," is lauded as a winning strategy. But for spoken word poet Henry Morray, it won Slamovision's 2025 international slam poetry competition.

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 ...

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 ...

Got a few poems in your pocket? Now’s your chance to pull them out and be heard aloud. The Anton Art Center is holding its first ever “Poetry Slam” competition with local artists performing their ...

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 ...

One by one, poets shrug their way to the stage, pausing for a breath before diving in. Without fail, someone from the crowd offers the rallying cry: "Let's go, poet!" The room answers in its own ...

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.

*Video of a 14-year-old reciting his slam poem “White Boy Privilege” has gone viral in the wake of the country’s recent race-related shootings. Back in May, Royce Mann performed at a slam poetry ...

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 ...

STAGE? I AM NOT AND NEVER WILL BE, NEVER REALLY WANT TO BE NORMAL, BUT AT LEAST NORMAL. HERE. CANTAB IS POETRY. THE CROWD IS YOUNG, HIP AND ARDENT, OPEN MINDED. IF YOU THINK THAT SOMEBODY IS IN THE ...

The media center at Montgomery Blair High School was transformed: the lights dimmed, candles lit, flowers in vases on paper-clothed tables. On a stage erected for the occasion, student after student ...

When things get hard, people turn to poetry. In fact, human beings have been turning to poem-hearing and making for thousands of years, and a lot of poetry — in all lands — witnesses and commemorates ...