Mercedez Holtry, Founder, President, and Slam Master of Burque Revolt, is a guest contributor for the United State of Women Spearheaded by a woman and her community of fellow poets—who mainly identify ...

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 ...

At least four hundred poets have descended on Denver, heads full of memorized verses, for the National Poetry Slam.For those who can't distinguish a slam poem from a verbal fistfight or the recitation ...

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 ...

'Stories with a Heartbeat' is a new podcast from WUNC using a poetic lens to explore conflict. As athletes from around the world compete for gold in Rio this summer, poets from across the U.S. are ...

Poetry slams have come a long way since 1985, when members of the Chicago Poetry Ensemble started read-ing their work at the old Get Me High Lounge in Bucktown. Today there are poetry slams in every ...

I’m not talking about your stuffy, boring poetry readings. I’m talking about a slam, a poetry slam. Straight-no-chaser style, wicked, lyrical acrobatics—I’m talking Cirque du Soleil. This is what kids ...

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 ...

Nia Lewis hated dodging strangers making leering comments on the street. First the catcalls made her angry. Then they inspired her. “You must understand that a body is just a body, a silhouette isn’t ...

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.