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 ...

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 ...

Roses are red, yellow and even pink. I’m always interested in what you think. However sweet, two lines of rhyme might be, it’s not that, which makes a poem worthy of reading or reciting aloud. “Unless ...

The Vermilion Poetry Society has announced that it will host its first Poetry Slam Contest, according to a news release. The event will take place July 24 at the Vermilion Boat Club, at 5416 Liberty ...

WILLIAMSBURG — This Friday, Williamsburg will be center stage for the state’s biggest slam poetry event when the Virginia Team Poetry Slam Championship comes to the Kimball Theatre. Originally called ...

If you were part of a specific genre of 2000s “creative weirdos,” you may have found yourself pulled into the spoken word poetry scene. The art form — which, as the name implies, includes any poetry ...

Jon Kelly was a homeless 17-year-old high school senior in Miami when he joined the Army to provide for his fractured family. Since the second grade, he had been putting his feelings down on paper — ...

WILLIAMSBURG — A Williamsburg slam poetry team recently took first in a state slam poetry event, and then went on to place in the top 10 in the nation. Williamsburg’s Slam Connection was one of six ...