Marc Kelly Smith had a great idea in the early 1980s: make poetry readings more palatable. He had thought, “Why is this artform that I have been writing and reading most of my life presented onstage ...

It’s time for a poetry slam revival, according to Boston Poetry Slam producer Myles Taylor. Slam poetry, which is a competitive event where poets recite spoken-word poetry in front of an audience and ...

If you’ve ever tried to get tickets to the annual ILL LIST Poetry Slam at the State Theatre and found them sold out, you’re ...

Although Pokémon and slam poetry each experienced their heyday in the 1990s, it has, for some reason, taken until now for somebody to combine the two. It’s finally happened, though, thanks to The Warp ...

Durban has been selected as the host city for the 5th World Slam Poetry Competition and Convention from October 5 to 11, 2026, featuring 40 elite poets from around the globe who will harness the power ...

Typically, a poetry slam is when writers compete against each other by reading their original work, which is judged on a numerical scale by selected audience members. Writing workshops and open mics ...

There was no ceremony to mark the final open mic at the Cantab Lounge last spring. The basement bar was known to sell out on Wednesdays, despite the venue’s many flaws. The stairs were old and narrow ...

Two Halifax poets are set to attend the fifth annual Canadian Individual Poetry Slam (CIPS) in Vancouver. Slam poetry is an intense blend of written verse mixed with stage performance — and a stop ...

This time, last year, Aleph Book Company had brought out a publication of Jeet Thayil’s oeuvre of poetry. For an event of such importance, there was an unsettling sense of finality in the news ...

Poetry is dying. Actually, it's pretty dead already for all intents and purposes and the rise of performance poetry slams is doing nothing to help matters. I know, I used to be a performance poet. The ...