Sekou Andrews' KOUMAMI album offers heartfelt inspiration. The Grammy®-nominated spoken word artist shares a timely message ...

The spoken word event featured poet Sarah Kay and performances from Stanford’s Spoken Word Collective, which disentangled ...

SAN ANTONIO – A firefighter’s job is grueling, but it’s not just physically dangerous. Seeing so much death and destruction is mentally and emotionally wearing. However, in a profession like ...

I hate sharing my poetry with people. I don’t mean that I get all sheepish and a little red in the face, but bashfully and begrudgingly do it anyway. No, I mean that I abhor it. It’s counterintuitive, ...

GOLDEN VALLEY, Minn. --A Golden Valley teenager is a national champion - because of the powerful way she chooses her words. Armstrong High School senior Stella Wright put together a poem about ...

Mad Skillz gets that. The Virginia emcee has worked with all of the state’s highest-grossing hip-hop stars, from Pharrell ...

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 ...

Caleb Rainey, a spoken word poet known as "The Negro Artist," performs at the newly-formed House of Words event for poets and other performing artists on Nov. 21 in Iowa City. (Elijah Decious/The ...

People in Pittsford gathered Wednesday night to honor the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The event was part of the “MLK ...

Poets Hanif Abdurraqib, Franny Choi, Dan "Sully" Sullivan, and club founder Peter Kahn have curated a new anthology celebrating the legacy of a... A high school spoken-word club changed students' ...