The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. IOWA CITY — It’s not often that “thinking inside the box” is lauded as a winning strategy. But for ...

The Mercury Cafe’s slam poetry team isn’t resting on its laurels. Many key members of the Merc’s competitive poetry team are still out of state, having earned a spot in the semifinals during the ...

WILLIAMSBURG — This Friday, Williamsburg will be center stage for the state’s biggest slam poetry event when the Virginia Team Poetry Slam Championship comes to the Kimball Theatre. Originally called ...

Since being featured in Seven Days in April, Balkisa Abdikadir, Lena Ginawi, Hawa Adam and Kiran Waqar, 15- and 16-year-olds slam poets who call themselves Muslim Girls Making Change, have performed ...

Last weekend, Brown and the Rhode Island School of Design’s joint poetry slam team sent members Kris Cho ’22, Blessed Sheriff ’19, Dāa Guy RISD ’19 and Manuel Ávalos ’19 to take part in the College ...

LEFT: Reading from his slam poem “Labels” at the Ralston Arena is Ralston High School junior Lance Otto. Otto is in his first year of competition with the Avenue Scholars slam poetry team and competed ...

It’s time to free up your schedule, Phoenix: Individual World Poetry Slam season is finally here. This fall, the Valley will host this internationally-recognized event for the first time in the city’s ...

WINNER: The Ekurhuleni MMC for Sport, Recreation, Arts and Culture, Clr Dora Mlambo (left), hands over the classic microphone to the slam poet champion, Thanduxolo Mkhaliphi. Thanduxolo Mkhaliphi (19) ...

This isn’t the goateed poet in the coffeehouse dive, sporting his beret, sipping an absurdly tiny espresso and passively mumbling a few verses about his gerbil. All while no one in the audience ...

Lincoln High School's slam poetry team will perform Wednesday at 7 p.m. in the ballroom at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln student union. "We would love staff and community to attend and show some ...