WILLIAMSBURG — This Friday, Williamsburg will be center stage for the state’s biggest slam poetry event when the Virginia ...

But he would become the creator of the Uptown Poetry Slam, indeed the creator of the entire concept of “poetry slam,” which he once described to me as a “grab-bag variety show which mixes ...

The first-ever Homestead Poetry Slam was a resounding success, bringing together poets, performers, and community members for ...

Our special guest was Lacroy Nixon, founder and director of Slam Connection, a relatively new spoken word poetry collective based in Williamsburg. Honestly, I didn’t know what to expect.

It’s time for a poetry slam revival, according to Boston Poetry Slam producer Myles Taylor. Slam poetry, which is a competitive event where poets recite spoken-word poetry in front of an ...

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.

As the Twin Cities’ slam poetry scene rebuilds, BuckSlam — a new organization dedicated to the style of competitive poetry performance — has quickly established itself at the forefront.