As I weaved through the verses, I felt myself steadying on stage, anticipating the next line and delivering it with just the ...

African spoken word poetry is deeply rooted in the continent's rich oral traditions. For millennia, stories, histories, and ...

The Detroit Lions and Joel Fluent Greene created a spoken word poem to honor Black History Month. The Detroit Lions Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging council hosted their first Black History ...

For Asghar, that goal is a reason to create spoken word poetry, using the language in new ways and to address stories at the margins, including her own. The Obamas hosted a "Poetry Jam" Tuesday ...

Spoken word is a form of performance poetry that focuses on word play, sound and storytelling. Suli Breaks is a poet, writer, spoken word artist and YouTuber. He has been writing poetry most of ...

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 ...

IOWA CITY - For Rudy Francisco, one of the most widely known spoken word artists in modern poetry, it started with a feeling.

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 ...

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 performed, he knew exactly what ...