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 ...

BRECKENRIDGE If youve ever wanted to release your inner poet, now is the time to do it.On Monday, Colorado Mountain College (CMC) will host its First Annual Poetry Slam! at the Speakeasy Theatre in ...

On Sept. 29, the featured poet was Ashley Crooks-Allen, known under the stage name Lyrical Ley. Crooks-Allen earned their master’s degree from the University of Georgia in 2022 with a doctorate in ...

From powerful poetry and basketball legends to tasty margarita and Juneteenth celebrations, there’s lots of fun to be had in Knoxville this coming weekend. Plan your schedule carefully so you can snap ...

Marc Kelly Smith had a great idea in the early 1980s: make poetry readings more palatable. He had thought, “Why is this artform that I have been writing and reading most of my life presented onstage ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Slam host Ngoma. Credit: Brian Slattery Photo Memories of the Children’s Crusade. A vision of ...

Slam poetry performers from around the country are converging on Houston Friday and Saturday (March 24-25, 2017) for the Bayou City Poetry Slam Festival at the Houston Community College Performing ...

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 ...

Mercedez Holtry, Founder, President, and Slam Master of Burque Revolt, is a guest contributor for the United State of Women Spearheaded by a woman and her community of fellow poets—who mainly identify ...

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 ...