Five young poets from Peoria have won the 2025 Gwendolyn Brooks Youth Poetry Awards, and will be celebrated at a ceremony at ...

On Oct. 27, 2012, on a play so gruesome it remains hard to watch, he flew to the left and was hit one last time.

Poet and spoken-word artist Dagogo Hart has written a new children’s book about his experience of moving from Nigeria to ...

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s a hip-Hop festival, a chance to join a one-day choir, “Macbeth” in the park, a barbecue in The Port neighborhood, monarch ...

I went to a handful of shows opening weekend — and I have a few more to go this week — but let's talk about what I loved so ...

A powerful Cleveland youth poetry slam showcased raw talent and truth, but the night was marred by the absence of community organizations that should have shown up to support them, writes columnist ...

Ayana Playle, Worthing-based winner of Chichester’s first-ever poetry slam, believes humour was key to her success.

In the 2010s, when slam poetry exploded in popularity, Gibson began appearing online—in Button Poetry recordings, in a video submission for the NPR Tiny Desk competition during which they were ...

Andrea Gibson, 49, Colorado state poet laureate, queer activist and internationally touring spoken-word artist, died early Monday morning in their Boulder home. They were diagnosed with ovarian ...