At Piano Slam 2024, then junior Edwina Tony from Miami Norland Senior High passionately delivers her spoken word poem, “From Permed to Proud.” Poetry combined with hip-hop, classical and pop music has ...

Lily Myers first started writing poetry in a creative writing class in her junior year of high school. She first encountered slam poetry during her first year at Wesleyan University. Then, as a ...

*Video of a 14-year-old reciting his slam poem “White Boy Privilege” has gone viral in the wake of the country’s recent race-related shootings. Back in May, Royce Mann performed at a slam poetry ...

It’s been 20 years since Nancy Sullivan, a media specialist at Portland’s McDaniel High School, organized a poetry slam for students in the school’s library. That one slam eventually evolved into ...

LEFT: Reading from his slam poem “Labels” at the Ralston Arena is Ralston High School junior Lance Otto. Otto is in his first year of competition with the Avenue Scholars slam poetry team and competed ...

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 ...

and Sundown Records will host a Poetry SLAM at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 20, at Fozzie's Smokin Bar-B-Q, 114 Third St. NW. "A poetry slam is a competitive art event in which poets perform spoken word ...

Poetry combined with hip-hop, classical and pop music has young poets competing for prizes from $100 to $1,000 at this year’s Dranoff 2 Piano Fusion “Piano Slam.” The music-poetry mashup is at the ...