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 engaging ...

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"We had a similar start,” Dillon Brown said, amused to compare his own initiation as a poet with that of Langston Hughes, a leading voice of the Harlem Renaissance and a frequent visitor to Long ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Poet and activist Amanda Gorman returned to the national political stage on Aug. 21, performing her spoken-word poem "This Sacred ...

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Mic Check Poetry Fest in Iowa City offers workshops for writers of all types and ages, in addition to spoken word poetry performances. (Mic Check Poetry Fest) Buy Photo The Gazette offers audio ...

Poems, like songs, are curated and structured with intent; short, brighter poems provide reprieve from heavier, soul-searching expositions. Del Rey, while still artistic and vulnerable in her music, ...

Angela Williams (COL ’17) has not always been a poet. Though she often journaled in high school, it was not until her sophomore year, when she attended a meeting of Corpus Collective, Georgetown’s ...

This month, every.Word poetry is presenting Lines for Liberation, a spoken word event for Black History Month.

Raymond Antrobus was born deaf. When he came to poetry, much of his work was built on the history and foundations of poetry slams and spoken word performances. "I really felt a lineage of poets in ...

When Peter Kahn became an English teacher at the Chicago-area Oak Park and River Forest High School, he was terrified of teaching poetry. "Poetry was my least favorite subject as a student, and my ...