Rochester Institute of Technology’s Poetry Slam team is ready to rhyme, as they compete on the national stage for the very first time. Five students from throughout the university will represent RIT ...

But there are also more dynamic and modern forms, such as slam poetry. We’ve already discussed this art form, which can be easily integrated into an educational setting. In fact, librarians and social ...

On Bad Poetry Day today, it’s worth exploring the colourful world of slam poetry — a form that often finds itself at odds with traditional poetry. Unlike conventional forms such as sonnets, limericks, ...

Seasoned and amateur poets alike are standing behind microphones all over Utah to share a taste of their passion: slam poetry. Many BYU students have found common ground in this increasingly popular ...

Leslie Wu, a doctoral student in computer science at Stanford, took an appropriately high-tech approach to presenting her poem "Say 23" at the first Stanford Code Poetry Slam. Wu wore Google Glass as ...

For Janae Johnson, a Boston-based spoken word poet who won the Women of the World Poetry Slam this spring, poetry is a bold act of breaking the silence. Johnson's identity as a black queer woman, and ...

You might not imagine poets, those long-haired, dreamy bohemians, as aggressive competitors. But at the National Poetry Slam (August 1-6)—taking place in Georgia for the first time this year—more than ...

This month, Williamsburg’s Slam Connection took home fifth place at the 34th annual Southern Fried Poetry Slam, held from ...

On weekday evenings in starkly lit rooms, people come to turn their hearts out from their sleeves. They come from penthouse apartments and their friends's basements, they come young and old and male ...

Admit it, GeekDads: you find ideas irresistible. And unconventional ideas expressed in high-octane language? Resistance is futile. It's okay, though – this particular behavioral bug is really more of ...

This time, last year, Aleph Book Company had brought out a publication of Jeet Thayil’s oeuvre of poetry. For an event of such importance, there was an unsettling sense of finality in the news ...