Watermark's first spoken word Poetry SLAM! of the year will be held at 7 p.m. on Thursday, March 26, at Fozzie's Smokin' Bar-B-Q, 114 Third St. "A poetry slam is a competitive art ...

Brittany Shostak lets the audience dictate her poetry. Shostak is a slam poet who will compete in this weekend's Tucson Poetry Festival. It's only after going through the first "nerve-racking" round ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sep. 11—BEMIDJI — Watermark's first spoken word Poetry SLAM! of the season will be held at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 18, at Fozzie ...

Marc Kelly Smith had a great idea in the early 1980s: make poetry readings more palatable. He had thought, “Why is this artform that I have been writing and reading most of my life presented onstage ...

Roses are red, yellow and even pink. I’m always interested in what you think. However sweet, two lines of rhyme might be, it’s not that, which makes a poem worthy of reading or reciting aloud. “Unless ...

More than 80 poets, $5,000 in prizes and new youth events as Albuquerque’s Chicharra Poetry Slam Festival takes over, March 18-22.

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.

The Vermilion Poetry Society has announced that it will host its first Poetry Slam Contest, according to a news release. The event will take place July 24 at the Vermilion Boat Club, at 5416 Liberty ...