Kost was itching to produce an event last summer. After a nine-month tour of the U.S. with a children’s theater company, the poet-director-writer-performer wanted to create something of their own.

“What I’ve Stolen, What I’ve Earned” by Sherman Alexie poetry, (Hanging Loose Press) Death. Family. Loss. Love. Wealth. Poetry. Spirituality. Genocide. Prejudice. Sherman Alexie’s new poetry ...

A Rancho Bernardo artist’s oil painting of the Children’s Pool in La Jolla is among the award-winning artworks featured in the Surfing Madonna Oceans Project’s “Ocean-Earth-Air” Art and Poetry ...

Poet and artist Josephus Thompson III has been showcasing poets and spoken word artists from around the world for more than a decade. He hosts The Poetry Café based in Greensboro, where performances ...

At a low point in the summer of 2013, Flint student Razjea Bridges turned to poetry. “I kind of shut out everybody all throughout that year. Poetry was kind of the one thing that I relied on to make ...

On Sunday evening, the Trumbull Theater hosted a performance by the Oye Spoken Word group, who presented a series of poems and oratory that paid homage to Latine culture. The show was called “Para ...

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, ...

Jill Scott and Newark Mayor Ras Baraka are headlining a “Def Poetry Jam” reunion livestream this weekend that will raise funds for people in need during the COVID-19 crisis in Newark. “Def Poetry Jam, ...

Spoken poetry can be both therapeutic and entertaining, whether you're writing, reading it aloud, acting it out, or just sitting back to listen. West Montgomery is getting another round of those ...

RUSSELL SIMMONS DEF POETRY JAM: Performance poetry. Directed by Stan Lathan. The lights went up and he was caught in the spotlight, testing out a little moonwalking as if he were in the privacy of his ...

As a poet and host of Tallahassee’s popular weekly Black on Black Rhyme poetry event, Keith Rodgers has two tools that have served him well on his artistic journey: a quick wit and an expansive memory ...