On Sept. 29, the featured poet was Ashley Crooks-Allen, known under the stage name Lyrical Ley. Crooks-Allen earned their master’s degree from the University of Georgia in 2022 with a doctorate in ...
Last week, eighth-graders from Bradley Beach elementary school took the auditorium stage to perform original spoken word ...
Memories of the Children’s Crusade. A vision of alien visitations in the future. Invocations of superheroes. Fist-raising calls for change. These were all part of the 28th annual Z Experience Poetry ...
WILLIAMSBURG — A Williamsburg slam poetry team recently took first in a state slam poetry event, and then went on to place in the top 10 in the nation. Williamsburg’s Slam Connection was one of six ...
Slam poetry in Chicago is getting a shot in the arm from Frankie’s Tee, a media platform and talk show founded in 2024. Hosted by west-side natives Tanya “Tee” Smith and Frankie Fabre, Frankie’s Tee ...
When McDaniel High School librarian Nancy Sullivan originally started the first youth poetry slam competitions in Portland in 2005, she didn’t have any concept of the new event’s staying power.
As a young man, growing up on the city’s Southwest Side, Marc Kelly Smith aspired, for a very short time, to a career in architecture. That didn’t quite work out but Smith would eventually find not ...
WILLIAMSBURG — This Friday, Williamsburg will be center stage for the state’s biggest slam poetry event when the Virginia Team Poetry Slam Championship comes to the Kimball Theatre. Originally called ...
More than 80 poets, $5,000 in prizes and new youth events as Albuquerque’s Chicharra Poetry Slam Festival takes over, March ...
As the Twin Cities’ slam poetry scene rebuilds, BuckSlam — a new organization dedicated to the style of competitive poetry performance — has quickly established itself at the forefront. Now, as its ...
The Z Experience Poetry Slam on Monday saw a lot of changes from previous years, in introducing new hosts and a new competition format. But its commitments to making voices heard, diving deep into ...
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