CHICAGO (CBS) -- Chicago's own Malik Yusef was nominated for a Grammy Award this year for his own spoken word poetry album. Yusef didn't win this time. It also was not Yusef's first time at the ...

Peter Kahn ’94, long-time spoken word educator, discusses how integrating spoken word poetry into classrooms can transform not just schools, but also the lives of students. Public speaking is ...

United Arts of Wake County, in partnership with the Raleigh Fine Arts Society, recently hosted the second Spoken Word ...

Watermark Art Center and Sundown Records will host a Poetry SLAM at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 20, at Fozzie's Smokin Bar-B-Q, ...

He’ll be going to Edgewater, Ocoee, and Oak Ridge High Schools to expose Central Florida’s Black youth to spoken word poetry. He works with students on their creative writing skills ...

Honduran native Daniel Letona immigrated to the Boston area to build a high-tech career. He also found a community in the ...

Tank and the Bangas, the genre-blending New Orleans band that intermingles R&B, funk, jazz, hip-hop and spoken word, finally has its first Grammy Award. During the pre-broadcast portion of ...

Comedy and poetry are Janus-faced genres which interpenetrate and cross-pollinate, if given the chance. To be executed effectively, stand-up comedy and spoken word poetry specifically require a ...

While poetry may not be the first thing that comes to mind when thinking about Valentine’s Day, ‘’Your Words’’ is a timely ...