When McDaniel High School librarian Nancy Sullivan originally started the first youth poetry slam competitions in Portland in 2005, she didn’t have any concept of the new event’s staying power.
Poetry is a powerful, multifaceted force, and the Orange County Regional Youth Slam Event, an annual high school poetry slam hosted by the Orange County School of the Arts in Santa Ana, undoubtedly ...
The power of poetry took centre stage as pupils from across The Stour Federation showcased their talent at a Poetry Slam competition judged by the best in the game.
Slam poetry in Chicago is getting a shot in the arm from Frankie’s Tee, a media platform and talk show founded in 2024. Hosted by west-side natives Tanya “Tee” Smith and Frankie Fabre, Frankie’s Tee ...
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – Verselandia! is back. Portland’s annual city-wide youth poetry slam championship takes place April 24 at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall. Tribes battle PGE’s plan to seize ...
On Friday, Feb. 21, the University of Massachusetts’ Center of Racial Justice and Youth Engaged Research and the Black Healing, Joy and Justice Collective held the second annual W.E.B. Du Bois Poetry ...