Bengalurean Prishita Tahilramani grew up listening to her grandfather's tales. "He used to recount his experience of the Partition of India and how, when he was eight years old, they had to move to ...

During my research studying a diverse group of spoken word poets in Arizona, I learned that adolescents improved their writing skills, academic performance, confidence and social skills through ...

The spoken word event featured poet Sarah Kay and performances from Stanford’s Spoken Word Collective, which disentangled ...

You wanna see? She'll show you right here, right now. In a crowded downtown coffee shop, on the sidewalk outside City Hall, in a shoe store or the basement of a club, Bethany Montgomery is always ...

In the wake of Malcolm X’s assassination in the winter of 1965, Black and brown poets like Amiri Baraka, Miguel Algarin, and Sonia Sanchez consciously rejected effete paper poems for those that sought ...

ROANOKE, Va. – A Roanoke man with a tough exterior, but a larger-than-life personality and a heart of gold is sharing deep words of motivation through spoken word in the Commonwealth. He goes by Juice ...

Editor's note: This conversation first aired on December 10, 2018. Andrea Gibson passed away on July 14, 2025 after living with terminal ovarian cancer for four years. Gibson’s social media stated, ...

April is National Poetry Month, and there is no better way for ASU students to celebrate than watching and performing spoken word poetry in the Valley. Pinna Joseph, the community events manager for ...

"We had a similar start,” Dillon Brown said, amused to compare his own initiation as a poet with that of Langston Hughes, a leading voice of the Harlem Renaissance and a frequent visitor to Long ...

Editor’s note: Not long after Amanda Gorman recited one of her poems at the inauguration of President Joe Biden on Jan. 20, three of her forthcoming books skyrocketed to three of the top four spots on ...