On Friday, Feb. 21, the University of Massachusetts’ Center of Racial Justice and Youth Engaged Research and the Black Healing, Joy and Justice Collective held the second annual W.E.B. Du Bois Poetry ...

A new crop of championship youth slam poets was crowned last week at Literary Arts’ Competition. At Arlene Schnitzer Concert ...

Mercedez Holtry, Founder, President, and Slam Master of Burque Revolt, is a guest contributor for the United State of Women Spearheaded by a woman and her community of fellow poets—who mainly identify ...

A slam poet, or spoken word artist, can be a social activist, a stage performer and, above all, a passionate poet at the core. Slam poetry is a fairly new, unique form of expression that began with ...

It’s time for a poetry slam revival, according to Boston Poetry Slam producer Myles Taylor. Slam poetry, which is a competitive event where poets recite spoken-word poetry in front of an audience and ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa — Arms outstretched and eyes locked on her audience, Koleka Putuma is a big stage presence for a young woman barely 5 feet tall. Her voice is velvet. But her words cut like a ...

Since being featured in Seven Days in April, Balkisa Abdikadir, Lena Ginawi, Hawa Adam and Kiran Waqar, 15- and 16-year-olds slam poets who call themselves Muslim Girls Making Change, have performed ...

NEW YORK — Mythos Studios, the independent filmmaking arm of hot Austin, Texas-based ad agency GSD&M, has begun production on its first documentary feature. Tentatively titled “Slam Channel,” pic ...

Most performers at the Uptown Poetry Slam get one poem; Del Valle, who made a surprise appearance for National Poetry Month, ...

Editor’s note: This column was written earlier this school year, prior to the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent school closures. Although many people may not consider Slam Poetry a sport, it holds the ...

InsideOut Literary Arts hosts the Detroit Youth Poetry Slam on May 7 at the Wright African American History Museum.