Ofelia Zepeda is a renowned poet and linguist, and one of the world’s foremost experts on the Tohono O’odham language.

Mr. Alemnge is among a group of artists using spoken-word poetry to denounce ongoing bloodshed in Cameroon’s English-speaking regions, where separatists are fighting government forces.

Alemnge is among a group of artists using spoken-word poetry to denounce ongoing bloodshed in Cameroon’s English-speaking regions, where separatists are fighting government forces. The corpse ...

And it’s how he wins titles and trophies on Oregon’s spoken-word poetry circuit. It wasn’t until Lattimore began performing poetry at open mic nights that he even realized that this ...

The Charlevoix Public Library will host its second annual Bards of Northern Michigan live poetry reading on April ... the evening's celebration of the spoken word. The event, which launched ...

Support youth in your life who may be participating in Poetry Out Loud by offering to hear their poem and watching the national finals in early May. You can also attend virtual open mics or listen to ...

Rupi Kaur began performing spoken word poetry in 2009 and released her first book, "milk and honey", in 2014. But it is her activity on Instagram that propelled her to stardom. She now has 4.3 ...

The nonprofit group Mass Poetry is holding their Teen Spoken Word Festival at Emerson College. The Write Here | Write Now | Speak Loud Festival featured workshops, performances, and competitions ...

gangs — propelled by his love of poetry. As Irika Sargent reports, that passion set the Chicago spoken word artist on a path to award-winning success, and now, the chance to help others have ...

Some words may be mispronounced. IOWA CITY — For Rudy Francisco, one of the most widely known spoken word artists in modern poetry, it started with a feeling. When he first saw a spoke word poem ...

Spoken Word Poetry has been around for millennia. The advent of language, which conservative estimates put at about 60,000 years ago, made it natural for oral tradition to become man’s primary ...

describes the event as the "biggest and best new poetry festival in the country" He said it will be a "lot of fun" with performances from some of the legends of the spoken word along with ...