“Here, Still” is the theme of the 11th annual All City Teen Poetry Slam Festival, to be held March 29 through April 1 and April 7-8 in various locations throughout downtown Baton Rouge. The theme is a ...

When McDaniel High School librarian Nancy Sullivan originally started the first youth poetry slam competitions in Portland in 2005, she didn’t have any concept of the new event’s staying power.

Houston, Texas (KTRK) -- Months of preparation and dedication paid off for Meta4 Houston! The youth poetry team won the prestigious Brave New Voices International Poetry Slam for the second time in a ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- A youth poetry team in Houston, Meta-Four, is celebrating a big accomplishment. Meta-Four just won the prestigious Brave New Voices Slam last month, solidifying their position ...

Spoken word artist Myrlin Hepworth writes three rules on the white board of a Glenwood Springs High School classroom. 1. Be brave. 2. Be respectful. 3. Your voice matters. The room is filled with 30 ...

Poetry is a powerful, multifaceted force, and the Orange County Regional Youth Slam Event, an annual high school poetry slam hosted by the Orange County School of the Arts in Santa Ana, undoubtedly ...

Watch young poets from all over the Bay Area compete to become a finalist at the international Brave New Voices youth poetry festival! For over 25 years, the Youth Speaks Teen Poetry Slam has ...

The makeup of Denver’s national slam poetry teams — Slam Nuba and the Mercury Cafe — has been determined in the past couple of weeks, and now, last but not least, the youth division, Minor Disturbance ...

It’s been 20 years since Nancy Sullivan, a media specialist at Portland’s McDaniel High School, organized a poetry slam for students in the school’s library. That one slam eventually evolved into ...

Pens and pencils quickly scratched across notepads and sheets of paper in the quiet art room in the Area Learning Center High School last Wednesday afternoon. Although it was the middle of their ...

Since being featured in Seven Days in April, Balkisa Abdikadir, Lena Ginawi, Hawa Adam and Kiran Waqar, 15- and 16-year-olds slam poets who call themselves Muslim Girls Making Change, have performed ...