PORT ANGELES — Poet Jason Carney’s world changed one day in a Dallas psychiatric hospital. His roommate, Patrick, was a gay man afflicted with AIDS. “He was dying,” Carney remembered. The two men’s ...
Illustration by Adriana Georgopulos. (Saul Willams photo by Walter McBride / Getty Images / Ntozake Shange photo by Daniel Zuchnik / WireImage) the greatest Americans have not been born yet they are ...
There's a trend catching on with teens in Tucson. This one is making their English teachers happy. Spoken word poetry has a growing following in high schools there. There's a trend catching on with ...
At H.D. Woodson High School, roughly 500 kids took the stage for D.C. Score’s annual poetry slam. No topic was off limits, and the competitors – who go to schools across the city – tackled everything ...
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 ...