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 ...
To John Basinger, a Middletown-based poet, storyteller and singer, slam poetry means “the face looks outward instead of inward.” Poetry has traditionally been an inwardly directed art, he says, ...
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 ...
Since winning the Teen State Slam Finals for Wisconsin in March, six poets have been creating new works in preparation for the Brave New Voices national competition in Atlanta next month. According to ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The program also presents a few special Friday night workshops led by adult poets. In February, performer Q-Nice (aka Quentin Finley) put Jonathan and about 14 other teens through exercises to ...
The 16th annual Word Up Poetry Slam will begin at 6 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 24, in the lobby of the Judge William H. Inman ...
Apr. 10—BEMIDJI — Watermark's last Spoken Word Poetry SLAM! of the season will be held at 7 p.m. on Thursday, April 17, at Fozzie's Smokin' Bar-B-Q, 114 Third St. "A poetry slam is a competitive art ...
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