The Mercury Cafe’s slam poetry team isn’t resting on its laurels. Many key members of the Merc’s competitive poetry team are still out of state, having earned a spot in the semifinals during the ...

Last weekend, Brown and the Rhode Island School of Design’s joint poetry slam team sent members Kris Cho ’22, Blessed Sheriff ’19, Dāa Guy RISD ’19 and Manuel Ávalos ’19 to take part in the College ...

Since being featured in Seven Days in April, Balkisa Abdikadir, Lena Ginawi, Hawa Adam and Kiran Waqar, 15- and 16-year-olds slam poets who call themselves Muslim Girls Making Change, have performed ...

Three-person tables, dimmed lighting and mocktails made RPCC’s multipurpose room reminiscent of a New York City poetry club Friday night. The occasion was the “Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Peace” ...

On Monday, Oct. 2, Iowa City became host to ten poets from across the state who traveled to compete in the annual SlamoVision poetry competition, which has been held for the past five years.

It’s time to free up your schedule, Phoenix: Individual World Poetry Slam season is finally here. This fall, the Valley will host this internationally-recognized event for the first time in the city’s ...

Citing a rising popularity in the performance-based art of slam poetry, the Western Colorado Writers' Forum has organized what is thought to be the first official Slam Poetry Competition in Grand ...

Iowa City has always been a hub for writers from all walks of life. Whether in attendance at the University of Iowa’s renowned Writer’s Workshop or a participant in the various events hosted by UNESCO ...

Lincoln High School's slam poetry team will perform Wednesday at 7 p.m. in the ballroom at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln student union. "We would love staff and community to attend and show some ...

What will it take to win this year’s upcoming National Slam Poetry Competition? Denver’s team, nearly a carbon copy of the one that lost in Providence last year, thinks it’ll have a fighting chance ...

When McDaniel High School librarian Nancy Sullivan originally started the first youth poetry slam competitions in Portland in 2005, she didn’t have any concept of the new event’s staying power.

He jumped up onto the stage, into the bright spotlight. Running his hands through his mop of hair, he began to pace and pivot. The crowd around him -- more than 100 people, on a warm Friday evening in ...