In a recent interview with FOX 12 Oregon, Marcus Lattimore discussed his journey from football player to spoken-word poet in Portland. Football ran in.

In a room full of strangers, sometimes it can be intimidating to speak up, much less read aloud poetry written less than 10 minutes prior. At the Spoken Word event, hosted by the Woodrick Center for ...

In the final moments of “EPiC,” Baz Luhrmann’s visual spectacle built around Elvis’ culture-shaking ‘70s residency at the Las ...

A surprise guest, former Vice President Kamala Harris, gave Kentwood Public Schools a direct shoutout on video for their ...

On Tuesday, Feb. 24, students gathered together for Open Mic Night at Dom’s Lounge, an event co-hosted by the Pens & Poetry Club and Pomona Student Union (PSU). Against a dimly lit orange backdrop, ...

It is only due to great merit accumulated from past lives that a poet occasionally finds such a knowledgeable critic who truly understands the labor involved in poetic composition—who carefully ...

Oakland’s Black History Month centennial celebration is on Feb. 26, 6–9 p.m., at the Henry J. Kaiser Center for the Arts (10 ...

I believe that poetry is freedom. It is freedom of self, of expression, of love — and I believe that my poetry is my dignity.

Ahead of her appearance at Northeast Community College, Nebraska state poet Jewel Rodgers hosted an intimate arts gathering ...

YWCA Evanston/North Shore hosted its second annual open mic poetry reading titled “The Soul of Black Poetry” on Wednesday evening. The Black History Month program focused on poetry centering the Black ...

On Saturday, Feb. 21, twelve poets competed at the W.E.B. Du Bois Slam Poetry Invitational at the Carney Family Auditorium in Furcolo Hall. The event was part of the annual Black Artistic Freedom ...

Some of the North State’s most accomplished writers will be reading their words in downtown Chico on Saturday, but not before seven poets from the Inspire School of Arts and Sciences inaugurate the ...