Thousands of years ago, the ancient Greeks recited epic poems aloud. Actors have breathed life into Shakespeare’s soliloquies since the 16th century. Now, a pair of poet-educators are working to bring ...

GRAND RAPIDS, MI - Kent County students and their teachers are learning that spoken word poetry is an excellent way to engage a class, to bring the text of a subject to life, and to encourage student ...

BUEA, Cameroon (AP) — A woman cried out upon seeing what looked like a corpse, a sheet-covered form lying on a stretcher. As volunteers wheeled it onto the stage, Boris Taleabong Alemnge recited a ...

When Peter Kahn became an English teacher at the Chicago-area Oak Park and River Forest High School, he was terrified of teaching poetry. "Poetry was my least favorite subject as a student, and my ...

A man speaks — no, more than that. His voice rises and falls, drawing forth syllables like waves until they break against each other. His body moves fluidly along with the lingual melody that dances ...

At school, I would always dread the poetry modules in English, trying to decipher meaning from stale texts and reading out my pained interpretation to a class half-asleep. It was only when I found ...

The title “The Spoken Word Revolution” elicits thoughts of revolution as a radical change or the overthrow of an oppressive regime. Readers with even the fuzziest notion of the poetry slam, the ...

Following the widespread praise of Donovan Livingston’s spoken-word poem, “Lift Off,” which went viral after he delivered it at the Harvard Graduate School of Education convocation last month, ...

Stockton’s Brandon Leake honed his craft at open mic nights on the campus of a small Christian college in Redding, on slam poetry teams, in high school classrooms and wherever else he could. Raised by ...

Though April marks National Poetry Month, poetry is always in motion in Baltimore all throughout the year. A city that is prized by its unique history, eclectic artscape, and local charm is ready to ...

BUEA, Cameroon — A woman cried out upon seeing what looked like a corpse, a sheet-covered form lying on a stretcher. As volunteers wheeled it onto the stage, Boris Taleabong Alemnge recited a poem ...