The Sevierville Chamber of Commerce is proud to announce the Appalachian WordFest Poetry Slam, an exciting opportunity for ...

RENSSELAER, N.Y. (WRGB) — Nearly two dozen students from several local schools competed in the 3rd Annual Capital Region Poetry Slam at Doane Stuart, performing their original works before a packed ...

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.

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” ...

JEFFERSON CITY — Soldiers Memorial Plaza was bursting with enthusiasm April 9. In honor of Sexual Violence Awareness Month, Lincoln University’s newly instated RSVP Center hosted its first “Take A ...

For once, Oregon wasn’t behind. The Ducks didn’t trail at the half, nor down the stretch. It was a strange sense of calm for a team that... UO Poetry Slam, a student organization dedicated to spoken ...

HENRICO COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — Henrico County middle and high school students took the mic Wednesday evening for the third annual Black History Month Poetry Slam. Students recited original works along ...

Lily Myers first started writing poetry in a creative writing class in her junior year of high school. She first encountered slam poetry during her first year at Wesleyan University. Then, as a ...

It’s been 20 years since Nancy Sullivan, a media specialist at Portland’s McDaniel High School, organized a poetry slam for students in the school’s library. That one slam eventually evolved into ...

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 ...