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… ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Rise Up Foundation, which works to prevent sexual violence against youth through education, outreach and healing events, is hosting the "Why I Wear Denim" Poetry Slam and Denim Day Take Back ...

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.

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.

The Regional Youth Poetry Slam will feature three rounds of competition: in the first round, all 10 students will perform a poem, then the panel of judges will score each one from one to 10.

The creator of slam poetry has started a podcast, “Thru the Mill with Marc Kelly Smith,” about his life and career as well as the roots of the spoken-word competition.

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.” ...