"Poetry can validate young people and give them a voice." That was the message to pupils at a secondary school in Bolton, Greater Manchester, who say they have been "inspired" to express themselves ...

Albert Vetere Lannon, 65, is a retired union official and former professor of labor studies. The self-described “elder” of a loose-knit group of performance poets runs Uncapped Press, which recently ...

Area bards can win cash prizes in Loudoun County Public Library’s 13th annual poetry contest, which runs through May 17.

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 ...

Feminist performance poet Alix Olson has always considered herself a loudmouth, and for a while her mouth–and her politics–got her into trouble. But she is quick to point out that the small acts of ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. On the first brisk night of fall in Los Angeles, the self-described surrealist blues ...

Aren't poetry slams really more performance art than literary art? Performance poetry is a way of taking academic writing one step further and engaging the audience to feel the emotions the poet is ...

Poets Eboni Hogan and Natasha "T" Miller, plus performance artist Billione, will step onto the stage at Affirmations this month as part of the center's ongoing celebration of Black History Month.

After an unforgettable weekend of auditions attended by over 70 performance poets from across Trinidad and Tobago, 18 ...