Albert Vetere Lannon, 65, is a retired union official and former professor of labor studies. The self-described “elder” of a loose-knit group of performance poets runs Uncapped Press, which recently ...

Aren't poetry slams really more performance art than literary art? Performance poetry is a way of taking academic writing one step further and engaging the audience to feel the emotions the poet is ...

Area bards can win cash prizes in Loudoun County Public Library’s 13th annual poetry contest, which runs through May 17.

Back in September, we posted on a Curtis Lovell Meets Walt Whitman: Listening Party, as part of the Calamus Project. Now that the musical side of the project has wrapped up, it’s time for the poetic ...

"Poetry can validate young people and give them a voice." That was the message to pupils at a secondary school in Bolton, Greater Manchester, who say they have been "inspired" to express themselves ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. On the first brisk night of fall in Los Angeles, the self-described surrealist blues ...

HASTINGS — Performance poets Manuel Gonzalez and his 13-year-old daughter, Sarita Sol Gonzalez, will read from their work at 7 p.m. Friday in the Scott Studio Theatre at Hastings College, 806 N.

In Denver, our poets are activists, bound to speaking truths, uplifting communities and, along the way, putting this town on the cultural map. Bobby LeFebre — a well-decorated performance poet with ...