The poets, aged 13 to 19, are representing their cities in the 12 th annual Brave New Voices International Youth Poetry Slam Festival. Over the next five days, they will perform three-and-a-half ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Tupac Shakur’s sister is in Kansas City to try to stop the violence. “I’m a 40-something African-American woman in America. Gun violence is like my cousin… ...

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.

Lipstick Wars poetry slam is expanding its work and programming with an event centered on Domestic Violence Awareness Month, which begins in October. “A lot of the participants are poets of ...

Get Lit – Words Ignite has hosted the poetry slam since 2012, when 18 schools competed at the Wiltern in Koreatown. The event was the brainchild of Diane Luby Lane, who taught a spoken-word ...

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.

That wouldn’t work — he wanted mostly fresh, current poems, not five-year-old poems. Also, the book cost $25,000 to produce, with pieces added right up until the deadline.

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.” ...

Later, Olivia Sorenson, vice president of SLAM! and MCAS ’20, stepped up to the mic to deliver another incredible performance. Her poem was called “An Invitation to Cool People,” and she admitted that ...

Uptown Poetry Slam comes to SPACE May 26 in Evanston. Skip to content. All Sections. Subscribe Now. 70°F. ... “Anybody in the audience can write a poem on the spot with that theme.