Reading poetry aloud is an art, a skill that made her Japan national slam poetry champion twice, in 2017 and 2018. Today, she is a board member of the World Poetry Slam Organization. She is also a ...

For junior Leo Roberts, the poetry slam was a chance to talk about some hard truths with ... In his poem, Leo admitted that bullying has taken a toll on him, but said he’s learned to value his own ...

Were you Seen at the third annual Capital Region Poetry Slam on April 23, 2025, at Doane Stuart School in Rensselaer? Twenty students from 10 local high schools competed in the showdown on ...

April is National Poetry Month in the United States, a time to celebrate and bring to light the poets and poetry that have shaped our nation. In honor of the month, I took a peek at Boston’s ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

In poetry slam, the delivery and rhythms of the words is at times even more important than the poem. Each slam poet has three minutes to present their poem in front of a five-member jury and the ...

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 ...

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 ...

With the annual Poetry Slam Cyprus competition coming up in early March, two national winners team up to teach aspiring poets and writers all they know about slam poetry and how to get closer to a ...

Leandro Reyes, the grandson of Severino “Lola Basyang” Reyes, is collaborating with Likhaan Creative Writing Foundation for the upcoming Likhaan Poetry Slam on Oct. 24 You may have heard about ...