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 ...

And slam poetry almost always has a shock value that leaves you with your jaw dropped or your hands clapping together in agreement. So, with that in mind, here are five slam poems you should watch ...

Slam Poetry is Genuine. When you come out of a city as diverse as Chicago, a city as segregated as Chicago, when you both love and hate it all at once and, most of all, you got something to get ...

Take her most famous poem, ... Putuma, who was the winner of South Africa’s first national slam poetry competition in 2014, also has been named one of Africa’s top 10 poets.

Slam poetry is a very distinct form of competitive spoken word. According to Taylor, it was born in Chicago in an attempt to make poetry less posh and white-collar and more accessible to the public.

After all, Basinger says, a poetry slam performer has to “own” his own work. To take part in a slam, all one needs is a poem, an attitude and an audience.

The slam poem, which Vella performed for her class and on video, begins with a list of ways a girl can fit in — trendy outfit, styled hair, tight Converse shoes.

Poetry slam is one of the few examples we have of a “language game” (to use Ludwig Wittgenstein’s famous term, but not exactly the way he means it) that is explicitly named as such.

The Honor Code holds standards high, and Saturday Night Slam Series asks that poems be kept at a PG-13 rating. ... BYUSA candidates have used slam poetry as part of their campaigning, ...

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.

He didn't quite "tell" the poem, or even recite it. Cortez "slammed" the poem to his audience. He and the other competitors took part in a poetry slam - their club is Cal Slam ...

So they left and got drinks. Metz told Evans one of the biggest deficits in the poetry world was the lack of a definitive, contemporary anthology of Chicago poetry. New York had one. Los Angeles, too.