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.

CLEVELAND, Ohio — I suspect most TV viewers enjoyed rooting for Faizan Zaki, a 13-year-old from Plano, Texas, as he stood on a stage last Thursday inside a National Harbor, Maryland, theater and ...

Salt Lake Speaks Slam Poetry Exhibition will take place at the Eccles Theatre Grand Lobby. The Salt Lake Speaks Slam Poetry Exhibition is a free night of slam poetry presented by Salt Lake County Arts ...

Most performers at the Uptown Poetry Slam get one poem; Del Valle, who made a surprise appearance for National Poetry Month, still had the crowd rapt after eight.

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 ...

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 ...

Every Wednesday night, Boston Poetry Slam takes over the Cantab Lounge in Cambridge — and it's a packed house. The Boston Poetry Slam hosts weekly open mic nights at the Cantab Lounge.

HOW MUCH: $24.95 for Champions Stage on Saturday, March 21, all other events are free, at cicadapoetryslamfestival.com The Chicharra Poetry Slam Festival returns to Albuquerque this month with over 80 ...

One by one, poets shrug their way to the stage, pausing for a breath before diving in. Without fail, someone from the crowd offers the rallying cry: "Let's go, poet!" The room answers in its own ...

After a brief winter hiatus, the Flagstaff Poetry Slam is back in action. The weekly event takes place on Wednesday evenings at Firecreek Coffee Co. in downtown Flagstaff and rounds up local poets and ...