This session is called The Basics of Slam Poetry. The second workshop, The Art of Performance, on February 10, will have participants perform their own piece and get feedback on stance ...

Conceived in the '80s, propagated in the '90s and formalized in the 2000s, Slam Poetry is once again evolving, this time to meet the demands of the YouTube era. Since last year, Podslam.org has ...

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 ...

Poets Safia Elhillo, Jamila Woods and members of the Stanford Spoken Word Collective shared poems both personal and political ...

The Poetry Slam featured a lineup of talented local poets who took the stage to share their thought-provoking pieces, each ...

Now videos of McNish’s home-recorded poems have received millions of views. Slam poetry, or spoken word poetry, is an art form that allows the poet to get across their point of view and express ...

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 ...

Kwene, a slam poet hailing from Boston, has been partaking in poetry slams for well over a decade and writing poetry for 20 years. The two pieces she performed were titled “Let Us Live” and ...