Lue Morgan (pictured on the far right) a senior at Woodland Public Schools' alternative TEAM High School, recently organized a poetry slam as a way for them and their classmates to have an opportunity ...

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.

Last Thursday evening, the University of Maine Campus Activities Board (CAB) hosted a poetry slam at the Memorial Union. This was the fifth bi-annual poetry slam at UMaine, where six student ...

Spoken word artist Myrlin Hepworth writes three rules on the white board of a Glenwood Springs High School classroom. 1. Be brave. 2. Be respectful. 3. Your voice matters. The room is filled with 30 ...

RENSSELAER, N.Y. (WRGB) — Nearly two dozen students from several local schools competed in the 3rd Annual Capital Region Poetry Slam at Doane Stuart, performing their original works before a packed ...

Three-person tables, dimmed lighting and mocktails made RPCC’s multipurpose room reminiscent of a New York City poetry club Friday night. The occasion was the “Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Peace” ...

For once, Oregon wasn’t behind. The Ducks didn’t trail at the half, nor down the stretch. It was a strange sense of calm for a team that... UO Poetry Slam, a student organization dedicated to spoken ...

The Beastie Boys called it the “drop” and Carlos Andres Gomez knows it as “the Pinch,” but everyone knows the buildup to the moment the music pauses and then switches to the part that never fails to ...

HENRICO COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — Henrico County middle and high school students took the mic Wednesday evening for the third annual Black History Month Poetry Slam. Students recited original works along ...

JEFFERSON CITY — Soldiers Memorial Plaza was bursting with enthusiasm April 9. In honor of Sexual Violence Awareness Month, Lincoln University’s newly instated RSVP Center hosted its first “Take A ...

Mary Hilton’s voice, rich with emotion, floated across the tables full of students, teachers and parents March 3, as she read a poem she composed about her experiences at her old school. The Louisiana ...

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 ...