Wendy Arimah Berot has gone through some tough days in the past year.But Berot, the Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning’s director of program operations, found comfort in others, and, ...

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 ...

Feb. 21, the University of Massachusetts’ Center of Racial Justice and Youth Engaged Research and the Black Healing, Joy and ...

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 ...

The Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning will celebrate Women’s History Month with a dynamic lineup of female poets, storytellers, and dancers ...

HENRICO COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — Henrico County middle and high school students took the mic Wednesday evening for the third annual Black History Month Poetry Slam. Students recited original works ...

Poetry Slam, better known in Uganda as Slam Poetry, was born in Chicago, USA, in November 1984, with the first slam competition being organised by an American poet called Marc Smith. To lift ...