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.

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

Brown's first-ever team destined for the College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational — an annual nationwide competition for slam poets — performed for a packed and enthusiastic Macmillan 117 last Friday.

It’s shortly before 8 p.m. at Guinevere’s Coffeehouse on Magnolia Avenue in downtown Orlando. In a few minutes, the nearly deserted shop has filled with local poets and their friends. S… ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Last weekend, Brown and the Rhode Island School of Design’s joint poetry slam team sent members Kris Cho ’22, Blessed Sheriff ’19, Dāa Guy RISD ’19 and Manuel Ávalos ’19 to take part in the College ...

Poetry slam is one of the few examples we have of a “language game” (to use Ludwig Wittgenstein’s famous term, but not exactly the way he means it) that is explicitly named as such.

Slam poetry is different to the traditional kind, however; it is written to be performed, it has an informal character and loose structure and most importantly it seeks interaction with the audience.

The normally sedate Mill Valley Public Library was rocked by a surprisingly large, loud, foot-stomping crowd that cheered the contestants and jeered the judges Friday night at the library’s i… ...