“When they tell you that your love is just a phase, tell them that you do not like the word just, that you are not just anything,” Kevin Kantor said in the quiet buzz of Hallowed Grounds on Thursday ...

The teenage brain is a cavern of pent-up emotion, and when the words of Walt Whitman, T.S. Eliot, and Emily Dickenson pervade those thoughts, they can cause an explosion of empowerment. Today's ...

“The point is not the points – the point is the poem.” That artistic wisdom was laid down by slam poet Jovan Mays two weeks ago at the Sixth Annual Cherry Creek School District Poetry Slam. Mays, who ...

LEFT: Reading from his slam poem “Labels” at the Ralston Arena is Ralston High School junior Lance Otto. Otto is in his first year of competition with the Avenue Scholars slam poetry team and competed ...

Since being featured in Seven Days in April, Balkisa Abdikadir, Lena Ginawi, Hawa Adam and Kiran Waqar, 15- and 16-year-olds slam poets who call themselves Muslim Girls Making Change, have performed ...

If you were part of a specific genre of 2000s “creative weirdos,” you may have found yourself pulled into the spoken word poetry scene. The art form — which, as the name implies, includes any poetry ...

Behold! The Panda-Platypus! Is this fearsome creature the latest genetic hallucination from the twisted minds that brought you the ManBearPig? Sadly, no. But you can still check out this very human ...

At Piano Slam 2024, then junior Edwina Tony from Miami Norland Senior High passionately delivers her spoken word poem, “From Permed to Proud.” Poetry combined with hip-hop, classical and pop music has ...

Anyone who thinks poetry is a dusty relic of liberal arts classrooms and bohemian coffee shop open mics needs to check out Flypoet. A 25-year institution in the world of spoken word, Flypoet puts on ...