COLUMBUS, Ind. — Joaquín Zihuatanejo, author, poet, spoken word artist, and award-winning teacher, will give a free spoken-word poetry performance, “Joaquin Speaks!” from 2 to 3 p.m. Aug. 28 in the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS) — Kicking off National Poetry Month, the renowned spoken word artist Poetic X joins me for a ...

One wants to tell stories in a new way. Another lets her poems act as a teacher. The third is OK if you think his art is rough around the edges. Each believes we all have stories in us and that spoken ...

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October is Fillipino American Heritage Month! Unfortunately, this article is a little late. For the occasion, I did a deep dive into Facebook’s abyss to find Arianna “Lady B” Basco’s (Dante Basco’s ...

Living in a UNESCO city of literature undoubtedly immerses its residents in the act of reading, but there’s a certain performative element that is sometimes overlooked. Spoken word poetry combines ...

Visualizing a Five Finger Death Punch concert in the mind's eye brings forth images of screaming, headbanging fans; skulls and crossbones pasted on T-shirts; and hundreds of hands gesturing the sign ...

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, part of a ...

Spoken word poetry is not merely an art form but a communion of soul, experience and understanding. Spend one night tucked in the back of House of Hathor on Columbia’s North Main Street and you’ll ...

Spoken Word and performance poetry is on the rise again in Guyana. Two shows have been advertised over the past month which seem to be generating quite a bit of excitement and these have emerged to ...

National Poetry Month was first established by the Academy of American Poets in 1996 and has since been celebrated every April across the United States. Denver's growing poetry and spoken word scene ...