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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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

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, ...

On Oct. 24, the Woodberry Poetry Room’s T.S. Eliot Memorial Reading was held in the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, spotlighting Cecilia Vicuña’s creative work. As a Chilean poet, artist, ...

It’s been described as embarrassing, clichéd or “unhelpful singsong.” Many poets dislike it too, but it’s a style they’ve learned from each other.