Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Benjamin Zephaniah brought poetry to the masses - Roberto Ricciuti Benjamin Zephaniah – who has died today, after a short illness ...

Tank and the Bangas will return home for an intimate, poetry-centered performance on April 11, offering a preview of their ...

Fifteen eighth grade students and some teachers from Cortez Middle School will present their poetry Dec. 10 at the Sunflower Theatre. Local poet Lisa C. Taylor might also read poetry, said English ...

COLUMBUS, Ind. — Joaquín Zihuatanejo, author, poet, spoken word artist, and award-winning teacher, will give a free spoken-word poetry performance, “Joaquin Speaks!” from 2 to 3 p.m. Aug. 28 in the ...

On Oct. 24, the Woodberry Poetry Room’s T.S. Eliot Memorial Reading was held in the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, spotlighting Cecilia Vicuña’s creative work. As a Chilean poet, artist, ...

Samantha McDonald, a 10th-grade student at Ernest Righetti High School in Santa Maria, earned the title of 2023 Poetry Slam winner at the Santa Barbara County Education Office Poetry Slam, May 4.

In the last few years, spoken word poetry has taken the literary community by storm. This popular genre of performance-based poetry is written to be performed aloud, and is spoken at events and ...

A teen's poetry slam performance is exploding on social media because of its profound outlook on the teen's place in society as a young, white male. Fourteen-year-old Royce Mann titled the piece, ...

Teaching artist Frank Sentwali had a message for the crowd at Rochester STEM Academy: the "Poets R Comin'." Sentwali's rousing spoken word piece kicked off a night of poetry on Thursday at STEM ...

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