CLEVELAND, Ohio — I suspect most TV viewers enjoyed rooting for Faizan Zaki, a 13-year-old from Plano, Texas, as he stood on a stage last Thursday inside a National Harbor, Maryland, theater and ...

and Sundown Records will host a Poetry SLAM at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 20, at Fozzie's Smokin Bar-B-Q, 114 Third St. NW. "A poetry slam is a competitive art event in which poets perform spoken word ...

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, Frankie’s Tee ...

Brittany Shostak lets the audience dictate her poetry. Shostak is a slam poet who will compete in this weekend's Tucson Poetry Festival. It's only after going through the first "nerve-racking" round ...

Poet Zachary Kluckman invites Logan into his home studio to share his creative process, recounting his journey from being an introverted student to performing slam poetry in front of big crowds.

Poetry is a powerful, multifaceted force, and the Orange County Regional Youth Slam Event, an annual high school poetry slam hosted by the Orange County School of the Arts in Santa Ana, undoubtedly ...

One by one, poets shrug their way to the stage, pausing for a breath before diving in. Without fail, someone from the crowd offers the rallying cry: "Let's go, poet!" The room answers in its own ...

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 audience and ...

I’ve never lived in a region that appreciates a summer day the way people do in New England. They bask in the sun like lizards, absorbing the warmth like they may never experience it again. I think ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — The fourth annual Food 4 Thought Poetry Slam is returning to the Virginia Museum of History and Culture on Saturday, Oct. 5. Ahead of the event, 8News got an inside look at what ...

As a young man, growing up on the city’s Southwest Side, Marc Kelly Smith aspired, for a very short time, to a career in architecture. That didn’t quite work out but Smith would eventually find not ...