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 ...

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 ...

Memories of the Children’s Crusade. A vision of alien visitations in the future. Invocations of superheroes. Fist-raising calls for change. These were all part of the 28th annual Z Experience Poetry ...

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.

How can we integrate poetry slam in our German lessons? Which steps lead us from an idea to the text and ultimately to the performance? How can we integrate poetry slam in our German lessons? Which ...

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 ...

On Bad Poetry Day today, it’s worth exploring the colourful world of slam poetry — a form that often finds itself at odds with traditional poetry. Unlike conventional forms such as sonnets, limericks, ...

Karen Lowry receives an Australian Postgraduate Award and Curtin Research Scholarship. She is affiliated with WA Poets Inc and Perth Poetry Club. Slam poetry has become increasingly popular in recent ...

Poetry Slam, better known in Uganda as Slam Poetry, was born in Chicago, USA, in November 1984, with the first slam competition being organised by an American poet called Marc Smith. To lift this ...

This is Notes From the Edge, a series reporting from the sharp edge of the UK’s creative industries. This week, we discover what’s stirring in the world of Slam Poetry, why it matters and how it ...

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 ...