Listening to his stories, over and over again, kindled in her a love for the spoken word. "Later, I started listening to ...

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 ...

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 music, poets in voice, poets in performance," Antrobus ...

Our special guest was Lacroy Nixon, founder and director of Slam Connection, a relatively new spoken word poetry collective based in Williamsburg. Honestly, I didn’t know what to expect.

Another lets her poems act as a teacher. The third is OK if you think his art is rough around the edges. Each believes we all have stories in us and that spoken word poetry can connect them.