Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nov. 13—BEMIDJI — Watermark's final spoken word Poetry SLAM! of 2025 will be held at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 20, at Fozzie's ...

Don't tell me poetry is as dry as big words on paper. Or as random and esoteric as the word esoteric. As culture changes, so does our definition of poetry, and recent expansions have taken us in ...

German spoken word artist Annika Blanke used to have to explain what slam poetry was. That’s changed in the last few years, as audiences have increased both in-person and online. Some poetry slam ...

If you were part of a specific genre of 2000s “creative weirdos,” you may have found yourself pulled into the spoken word poetry scene. The art form — which, as the name implies, includes any poetry ...

It’s time for a poetry slam revival, according to Boston Poetry Slam producer Myles Taylor. Slam poetry, which is a competitive event where poets recite spoken-word poetry in front of an audience and ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. IOWA CITY — It’s not often that “thinking inside the box” is lauded as a winning strategy. But for ...