Melissa Ferrer Civil found community, and a path toward better mental health, through poetry. Now, she’s spreading the good ...

Back on dry land, on 16 May, the Front Room at The Mechanics is the stage for a Local Writers’ Night, an opportunity to hear poems, short stories and spoken word pieces, promising something funny, ...

Alemnge is among a group of artists using spoken-word poetry to denounce ongoing bloodshed in Cameroon’s English-speaking regions, where separatists are fighting government forces. The corpse ...

Charlotte Vowden/BBC Poet and author Jazmine Robyn Cartwright, pictured centre, said she was "proud" of the community that the spoken word event had created Spoken word poetry, or slam poetry ...

The sad truth is that most of the history of the spoken word is lost. All we have are tantalising ... of dialects (as well as humour and sarcasm, poetry and hate speech). “There are still ...

Some words may be mispronounced. IOWA CITY — For Rudy Francisco, one of the most widely known spoken word artists in modern poetry, it started with a feeling. When he first saw a spoke word poem ...

Spoken Word Poetry has been around for millennia. The advent of language, which conservative estimates put at about 60,000 years ago, made it natural for oral tradition to become man’s primary ...

Art can help us make sense of the world, and these moving poems about life offer a better understanding of the ups and downs ...

Thom said among the international Spoken Word and Poetry stars include, Lule Mhlanzi from South Africa and Kenyan, Tiya Joan while the local stars are Q Malewezi, Nyamilikiti Nthiwatiwa ...

From ancient Greek soapbox soliloquies to viral TikTok videos of poetry slams, spoken word has always charged language with kinetic immediacy. Encompassing a unique blend of honesty and an ...

Maya White, a Pittsburgh native and a spoken word artist, won the grand prize of more than $1,000 at Queen Sheba’s Poetry vs. Hip-Hop event at City Winery in the Strip District. The show ...

Our special guest was Lacroy Nixon, founder and director of Slam Connection, a relatively new spoken word poetry collective based in Williamsburg. Honestly, I didn’t know what to expect.