Joe Coelho looks at how poetry can be performed, bringing the words to life rather than keeping them on the printed page, in ...

BALTIMORE, Jan. 7, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- In Need of Seawater is a documentary short by writer Mark Anthony Thomas that brings poetry to life through performance-driven filmmaking. Critics have praised ...

COLUMBUS, Ind. — Joaquín Zihuatanejo, author, poet, spoken word artist, and award-winning teacher, will give a free spoken-word poetry performance, “Joaquin Speaks!” from 2 to 3 p.m. Aug. 28 in the ...

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One Friday night in April a group of about 30 people descended into the basement of Cornelia Street Cafe in Greenwich Village for the first annual NYC Code Poetry Performance Festival. The poems, ...

Nearly a dozen middle and high school students got on stage today in hopes of their poetry performance getting themselves to ...

In the last few years, spoken word poetry has taken the literary community by storm. This popular genre of performance-based poetry is written to be performed aloud, and is spoken at events and ...

A teen's poetry slam performance is exploding on social media because of its profound outlook on the teen's place in society as a young, white male. Fourteen-year-old Royce Mann titled the piece, ...

Teaching artist Frank Sentwali had a message for the crowd at Rochester STEM Academy: the "Poets R Comin'." Sentwali's rousing spoken word piece kicked off a night of poetry on Thursday at STEM ...