But when he discovered the intensity of a poetry slam, his competitive streak was ignited. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.

April is National Poetry Month in the United States, a time to celebrate and bring to light the poets and poetry that have shaped our nation. In honor of the month, I took a peek at Boston’s ...

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Reading poetry aloud is an art, a skill that made her Japan national slam poetry champion twice, in 2017 and 2018. Today, she is a board member of the World Poetry Slam Organization. She is also a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Organisers Ideogramma, following the success of previous International Poetry Slams, is hosting its 8th edition at ARTos House, aiming to push poetry further by exploring new forms of expression.

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.