ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – The Chicharra Poetry Slam Festival in Albuquerque offers a unique poetry experience this weekend. Zachary Kluckman from the Chicarra Poetry Slam Festival joined Love 4 ABQ with ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Some days the hardest thing in the world is explaining Chicago to someone not from Chicago. Other days, particularly when you ...

Jordan Wolmut performing "Trigger Warning." Credit: Virtulandia! recording screen grab, via Literary Arts. In Trigger Warning, her award-winning poem, Portland poet Jordan Wolmut dissects the concept ...

As a young man, growing up on the city’s Southwest Side, Marc Kelly Smith aspired, for a very short time, to a career in architecture. That didn’t quite work out but Smith would eventually find not ...

*Video of a 14-year-old reciting his slam poem “White Boy Privilege” has gone viral in the wake of the country’s recent race-related shootings. Back in May, Royce Mann performed at a slam poetry ...

The 2017 All City Teen Poetry Slam Festival was held over two weekends in early April with the theme “Here Still.” The finals on April 8 were a tribute to the city’s resilience after the summer of ...

Roses are red, yellow and even pink. I’m always interested in what you think. However sweet, two lines of rhyme might be, it’s not that, which makes a poem worthy of reading or reciting aloud. “Unless ...

Even though he’s never seen an episode of the show, actor Samuel L. Jackson can do a pretty mean slam poem about Boy Meets World. Appearing on The Tonight Show on Tuesday, the RoboCop actor recited an ...

Some days the hardest thing in the world is explaining Chicago to someone not from Chicago. Other days, particularly when you already live here, the hardest thing is seeing the city clearly, as vast ...