Slam Connection, founded by Williamsburg poet laureate LaCroy Nixon, saw success at both the Virginia Team Poetry Slam ...

Ten teens recently performed original slam poetry at the Marcus Center for Performing Arts in Vogel Hall, with six selected to represent Milwaukee in the Brave New Voices Final competition in ...

In the world of slam poetry—a competitive version of spoken verse—there are three top national prizes: individual champion, Women of the World champ (for poets who live their lives as women ...

Jackson Neal, who won the Space City Slam youth poetry slam competition, choreographs one of his poems during a practice session for young slam poets, Wednesday, June 28, 2017, in Houston.

Slam poetry is an often heady mix of poetry, performance, competition, audience participation — and judgment. “The whole thing about performance poetry, when it works and you have the material ...

Slam poetry evolved in the 1980s in Chicago, and it's a broad category that encapsulates any sort of original poetry performed at a slam. In Brooks's words, slam's "the art of competing with your ...

The Shadowboxers Anonymous Queer Slam Poetry duo performed at 7 p.m. on Tuesday in celebration of LGBTQIA history month. The duo, Laura Yes Yes and Kim Johnson were finalists at world poetry slam ...

Local News Discovering themselves through poetry Myles Taylor brings their personal experience into their written work, whether it’s slam poetry or an upcoming book on toxic masculinity.

Jannes Rupf. A poetry slam is a competition in which each poet gets two minutes on stage to perform a poem without any props and are then judged and given a score out of ten.

On Monday, she and five other young poets who comprise the “Stirring Things Up” Poetry Ensemble will share their lyrical, lip-licking, mouth-watering verses at a food-themed poetry slam, or ...

Editor’s note: This column was written earlier this school year, prior to the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent school closures. Although many people may not consider Slam Poetry a sport, it h… ...