It's not often that "thinking inside the box," is lauded as a winning strategy. But for spoken word poet Henry Morray, it won Slamovision's 2025 international slam poetry competition.

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

Get Lit, the Los Angeles?based literary nonprofit, today announced 20 winners of If I Awaken in Los Angeles, the largest youth poetry contest in both Los Angeles and the nation, and awarded $30K in ...

Kailyn Hewitt, 17, has battled cancer since childhood. But she's never let "that be the only thing people see," her mom said.

On screen, Andrea Gibson delivers a line that now lands like a farewell: "Anyone who thinks poetry is frivolous has never needed someone to tell them something unspeakably hard, beautifully." The ...

Pennington resident Patricia Smith has won the 2025 National Book Award for Poetry for Intentions of Thunder: New and ...

The railway revolution opened up new destinations, expanded our culinary horizons and dramatically improved trade. Jonathan ...

The choir and the new Mayor's poet, were invited to join the Mayor's Christmas Carol service in the civic offices.

Get ready for Denver to battle Colorado Springs. On January 8 at 7 p.m. at Lulu’s in downtown Colorado Springs, Colorado Springs Poetry Slam will host its ...

Why have male poets disappeared from modern literature? Explore how society shifted from celebrating masculine voices like ...

For those of us north of the equator, winter officially arrived last week. The early darkness and the chill in the air demand ...

Birmingham Public Library is hosting its first Bards & Brews poetry slam of 2026 on Jan. 9. The event begins at 6:30 p.m. at the Central Library downtown. Thed Weller will serve as host and singer ...