Poetry combined with hip-hop, classical and pop music has young poets competing for prizes from $100 to $1,000 at this year’s Dranoff 2 Piano Fusion “Piano Slam.” The music-poetry mashup is at the ...
Gayle Danley crawled along the floor of the Banneker-Douglass Museum, smacked the carpet with her hand and belted out a line from her championship work "Bully Poem." "Jessie Patterson," Danley boomed ...
A group of young poets from New Haven is putting the Elm City in the national spotlight. The Ink Theory slam poetry team gained national recognition when they were crowned the 2026 Brave New Voices ...
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 ...
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 ...
Middle school is a level of hell I'd never wish on an enemy. The awkwardness, the insecurity, the constant pressure to be someone else when you're not so sure of who you are in the first place. The ...
This was the loud and unapologetic environment I stepped into at Get Lit’s Classic Slam, a poetry competition where more than 50 high schools participate annually. It was, as Tiffany Snow, Get Lit’s ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Some days the hardest thing in the world is explaining Chicago to someone not from Chicago. Other days, particularly when you ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. May 21—BEMIDJI — Watermark's next spoken word Poetry SLAM! event will be held at 7 p.m. on Thursday, May 28, at Fozzie's Smokin' ...
The 20th annual Atlanta Black Pride Weekend Poetry Slam and R&B Brunch is scheduled to take place on Sunday, September 6, at ...
Some days the hardest thing in the world is explaining Chicago to someone not from Chicago. Other days, particularly when you already live here, the hardest thing is seeing the city clearly, as vast ...