The 12 kids sat scattered in pews facing the podium, listening as their instructor went over details for the poetry slam that would cap off their three-day winter poetry camp. Emanuelee "Outspoken ...

Saul Williams Harold Bloom once stated in an interview with The Paris Review that poetry slam is “the death of art.” I like that. The gravity of the statement feels like its own commendation.

Juneteenth, a day commemorating the emancipation of enslaved African-Americans in the United States, is approaching, and DiDi Delgado is hosting a poetry slam to celebrate it. The poets and judges ...

April is National Poetry Month in the United States, a time to celebrate and bring to light the poets and poetry that have shaped our nation. In honor of the month, I took a peek at Boston’s ...

It’s time for a poetry slam revival, according to Boston Poetry Slam producer Myles Taylor. Slam poetry, which is a competitive event where poets recite spoken-word poetry in front of an ...

Slam poetry in Chicago is getting a shot in the arm from Frankie’s Tee, a media platform and talk show founded in 2024. Hosted by west-side natives Tanya “Tee” Smith and Frankie Fabre ...

But he would become the creator of the Uptown Poetry Slam, indeed the creator of the entire concept of “poetry slam,” which he once described to me as a “grab-bag variety show which mixes ...

is hosting a poetry open mic in Albany. More info. Slam Euphoria Open Mic & Poetry Slam, April 18: Slam Euphoria hosts an open mic night every first and third Friday of the month. More info.