On Sept. 29, the featured poet was Ashley Crooks-Allen, known under the stage name Lyrical Ley. Crooks-Allen earned their master’s degree from the University of Georgia in 2022 with a doctorate in ...
WoMag editor Victor D. Infante had never heard of Worcester when he met the 1996 Worcester Poetry Slam Team in Oregon. Then ...
Samantha Bucci has a passion for poetry slams and spoken word, and sharing a space for poetry, especially in the Fitchburg ...
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 into ...
Memories of the Children’s Crusade. A vision of alien visitations in the future. Invocations of superheroes. Fist-raising calls for change. These were all part of the 28th annual Z Experience Poetry ...
Hiding what is perceived as unpleasant in something pleasant. The technique is not new. How many pet owners have mixed medicine with food or treats to cure their pets? Parents, meanwhile, find all ...
At least four hundred poets have descended on Denver, heads full of memorized verses, for the National Poetry Slam.For those who can't distinguish a slam poem from a verbal fistfight or the recitation ...
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 ...
Marc Kelly Smith had a great idea in the early 1980s: make poetry readings more palatable. He had thought, “Why is this artform that I have been writing and reading most of my life presented onstage ...
Illustration by Adriana Georgopulos.(Saul Willams photo by Walter McBride / Getty Images / Ntozake Shange photo by Daniel Zuchnik / WireImage) the greatest Americans have not been born yet they are ...
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