Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Benjamin Zephaniah brought poetry to the masses - Roberto Ricciuti Benjamin Zephaniah – who has died today, after a short illness ...

Samantha McDonald, a 10th-grade student at Ernest Righetti High School in Santa Maria, earned the title of 2023 Poetry Slam winner at the Santa Barbara County Education Office Poetry Slam, May 4.

COLUMBUS, Ind. — Joaquín Zihuatanejo, author, poet, spoken word artist, and award-winning teacher, will give a free spoken-word poetry performance, “Joaquin Speaks!” from 2 to 3 p.m. Aug. 28 in the ...

Fifteen eighth grade students and some teachers from Cortez Middle School will present their poetry Dec. 10 at the Sunflower Theatre. Local poet Lisa C. Taylor might also read poetry, said English ...

On Oct. 24, the Woodberry Poetry Room’s T.S. Eliot Memorial Reading was held in the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, spotlighting Cecilia Vicuña’s creative work. As a Chilean poet, artist, ...

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One Friday night in April a group of about 30 people descended into the basement of Cornelia Street Cafe in Greenwich Village for the first annual NYC Code Poetry Performance Festival. The poems, ...

“Speak Your Truth,” a social event hosted by the Howard Thurman Center, brought students, faculty and staff together to share their experiences and thoughts on diversity last Thursday. The Faculty and ...

SIOUX CITY, Iowa (KCAU) — Nearly a dozen middle and high school students stepped to the stage in hopes of their poetry performance getting them to nationals. Over the past 16 years, many Siouxland ...