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 ...

The partnership formed after a Williamsburg Public Arts Council meeting on boosting the arts scene, where youth engagement was a hot topic, Nixon said. Ron Boucher, the education manager for Hampton ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The ringing endorsement of a snap, the modest approval of an “mm-hmm,” the hearty affirmation of a clap and cheer. Get your reactions ready, because a kinetic style of poetry-as-performance is about ...

The 20th annual Atlanta Black Pride Weekend Poetry Slam and R&B Brunch is scheduled to take place on Sunday, September 6, at ...

To some people, poetry slams may mean insults directed at poems, but to thousands of poetry fans, they are events that offer a venue for the competitive art of performance poetry. The art of “slamming ...