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 ...

A regular slam poetry night is moving to the stage of the Sydney Opera House to decide the 2025 Bread & Butter Poetry ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Durban has been selected as the host city for the 5th World Slam Poetry Competition and Convention from October 5 to 11, 2026, featuring 40 elite poets from around the globe who will harness the power ...

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 ...

*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 ...

4th Wall Theatre Company’s “Disturbing the Peace: A Theatrical Poetry Experience” brings together an imaginative coalescence of poetry, storytelling, and performance. While traditional poetry readings ...

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 ...