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

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 ...

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 ...

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.