Kit earned a top three spot at the 2010 National Queer Slam. He is one of the leading artists in his community, using his poetry to communicate positive social change. Kit loves being a traveling ...

Slam poetry was at its height in the late nineties and early aughts, but just like poetry (in its non-slammed form) it is still relevant. The medium is prime for reinvention, but exactly what cultural ...

BALTIMORE (WJZ) -- There is an award-winning Baltimore team you may never have heard of; they're a slam poetry team called DewMore. A "slam" is a competition where poets perform their original work.

Every Sunday night for the past 21 years, poets have gathered at Chicago’s most venerable jazz club to celebrate a different sort of sound: the spoken word. On any given night at uptown’s Green Mill, ...

“Bring ’em up! Bring ’em up! Bring ’em up!” shouts the crowd at the AvantGarden in Montrose. Although it may seem like a loud rap or hip-hop concert, under the back patio’s twinkle of firelights and ...

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 ...

Tom Hanks dropped by Late Night recently to perform slam poetry all about the beloved (yes beloved) 1990’s television show, Full House. The routine was a full house – see what I did there? – of ...

Believe it or not, Drake has provided us with the soundtrack for our lives. When you're looking for the right words to say that can encapsulate how lucky you're feeling at a specific moment, you're ...

"Something really heavy in the world just happened... What do we want to say about?" Preach! This film deserves a shout! An official trailer is available for an indie documentary called Don't Be Nice, ...

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Craig “Mums” Grant, an actor and poet who appeared in all six seasons of HBO’s prison drama Oz among dozens of film, TV and stage credits, died Thursday, apparently of natural causes, according to his ...