April 16 was B.Y.O.P. night at Coming to the Table-Historic Triangle’s monthly gathering. Everyone was invited to Bring Your Own Poem to observe National Poetry Month, which was established to ...

So it was a whole process in finally getting that poem to become what it is. (SOUNDBITE OF SPOKEN-WORD POEM, "HIDDEN IN PLAIN VIEW") WARNER: The things we hide about ourselves don't disappear.

Poet and activist Amanda Gorman returned to the national political stage on Aug. 21, performing her spoken-word poem "This Sacred Scene" at the Democratic National Convention. Gorman told Vanity ...

Part memoir, part homage, part performance history, “Spoken Word” is divided into three parts, or “books,” that show the evolution of the performance poetry scene from the 1960s to the 2010s.