A rhopalic poem or sentence is one in which each successive word is one letter (or, typically in poetry, one syllable) longer than the previous one. Due to the fact that the personal pronoun ...

The World Bank Group Youth Summit's 12th edition, brings together young people (ages 18-35) to tackle urgent global challenges. This year’s focus is on digital transformation, creative industries, and ...

As we’ve previously shared, “Music & the Spoken Word” is nearing its 5,000th week in a row of continuous network broadcasting. July 13, 2025, marks 96 years since a young man, Ted Kimball, climbed a ...

The San Francisco Bay area is home to a small but thriving salsa and Latin jazz scene. Many of them got together on a Friday night at the Brava Theater in the Mission District to perform together with ...

Editor’s note: “The Spoken Word” is shared by Derrick Porter each Sunday during the weekly Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square broadcast. This will be given Sunday, May 11, 2025. This is week No. 4,991 ...

Spoken word poetry, a performance art where poets share original works aloud emphasizing vocal delivery, body language and stage presence, isn’t your traditional form of poetry. It welcomes ...

They’ll also honor the winners of the fourth annual Tom Lee Poetry & Spoken Word Contest. Subscribers to The Daily Memphian help fund our not-for-profit newsroom of nearly 40 local journalists plus ...

Rachel Bond has been reading out the names of people killed by domestic and family violence for 10 years. She wishes she didn't have to.

Some sassy s–.” Baraka, a longtime spoken word artist, said he was “fresh out of college” when he wrote the piece American Poem, which he performed on Def Poetry Jam on HBO in 2003. “South Carolina ...

As volunteers wheeled it onto the stage, Boris Taleabong Alemnge recited a poem whose title spoke the ... Mr. Alemnge is among a group of artists using spoken-word poetry to denounce ongoing ...