In order to connect with the audience, slam poems represent the quotidian, the everyday. aspernDieSeestadtWiens Slam poetry has become increasingly popular in recent years and has far overtaken more ...

A group of young poets from New Haven is putting the Elm City in the national spotlight. The Ink Theory slam poetry team ...

The first slam poem Bianca Phipps wrote was about a boy. She’d broken up with him but didn’t say everything she needed to. So she said it in a poem, on a stage, in front of strangers. “It’s terrifying ...

Ask Shayna “Simba” Castano where she got her “Lion King” nickname and she’ll shrug. It’s just something that stuck, she explains, possibly because of her hair, a thick, black mane. Other than her ...

At least four hundred poets have descended on Denver, heads full of memorized verses, for the National Poetry Slam.For those who can't distinguish a slam poem from a verbal fistfight or the recitation ...

There are poets everywhere, and if you don’t believe that, you should have been at the Newberry Library on July 25 for a celebration in honor of Marc Kelly Smith, a poet who created and still hosts ...

This was the loud and unapologetic environment I stepped into at Get Lit’s Classic Slam, a poetry competition where more than 50 high schools participate annually. It was, as Tiffany Snow, Get Lit’s ...