Powerful imagery presented in words sung, spoken, and spit out is the shtick of I Was Born With Two Tongues, the Chicago-based Pan Asian spoken word group presented by the New WORLD Theater at Bowker ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook A microphone always helps get your message to the masses. But in the right hands, a microphone ...

April is National Poetry Month. Last week the Adirondack Center for Writing brought three poets from New York City and Chicago to the Saranac Lake... Apr 25, 2012 — April is National Poetry Month.

The University of Michigan Slam Poetry Club hosted its final campus performance of the academic year Thursday in the Michigan League basement to an audience of 40 people. The themes of the poems ...

On Sunday afternoon, a pioneer of performance poetry will return to Philadelphia for a rare appearance. Marty Watt of Philadelphia is credited with turning poetry readings into performance art in the ...

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 ...

Poetry reading, neo-burlesque performance, and fin-de-siècle brothels are outwardly different forms of art and entertainment. But the Poetry Brothel, started nine years ago in New York by Stephanie ...

Celebrations for Día de los Muertos kicked off Monday with a poetry performance hosted by Oyé, a Latin spoken word and poetry group. The performance, held in Sudler Hall, was the first in-person event ...

We've been conditioned since childhood to fall sleep shortly after someone begins reading to us, so it should come as no surprise that maintaining the appearance of consciousness at readings can be a ...