They are teachers, a student, a loan officer. During the day, their voices are neither booming nor fiery, their movements not filled with emotion. But when they start performing, they become the ...

"Poetry is sort of like the most distilled and … honest form of literature," said Boston Gordon, co-producer of the event and ...

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 ...

In 2017, Denver will become one of the hubs for the National Poetry Slam, the biggest slam event of its kind in the country and certainly the largest for Colorado. This major throwdown of America’s ...

Santiago, an 8-year-old at Stevens Elementary School, pushed up his glasses as he nervously began reading his poem Wednesday to a crowd participating in the annual Poetry Slam at Spokane Community ...

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 ...

WHAT -- Fort City Slam holds an open-mic poetry night on the first Friday of every month. This special mid-month poetry reading will be held at the Fort Smith Regional Art Museum. Featured artist ...

He jumped up onto the stage, into the bright spotlight. Running his hands through his mop of hair, he began to pace and pivot. The crowd around him -- more than 100 people, on a warm Friday evening in ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — The fourth annual Food 4 Thought Poetry Slam is returning to the Virginia Museum of History and Culture on Saturday, Oct. 5. Ahead of the event, 8News got an inside look at what ...

Nearly 20 speakers took to the stage set up in the Davidson Honors College Patio to speak about what sustainability meant to them in poems, explainers and personal stories.