Joe Coelho looks at how poetry can be performed, bringing the words to life rather than keeping them on the printed page, in this KS2 poetry video for primary schools.

GRAND RAPIDS, MI - Kent County students and their teachers are learning that spoken word poetry is an excellent way to engage a class, to bring the text of a subject to life, and to encourage student ...

Slut shaming is no joke, but this poem, “Bread Thread” by Emily Weitzman, manages condemn shamers in a deliciously hilarious way. Delivered at the 2016 Women of the World Poetry Slam in March, the ...

This morning we’ll be taking a brief break from the usual coronavirus and wildfire apocalypse programming to talk about a poet from the Central Valley, and his unlikely journey into millions of living ...

Jason Reynolds, an author from Rockville, Maryland, will perform spoken word poems Saturday as part of the Africa Alive! Community Day 2009 sponsored by the National Museum of African Art. ATM talked ...

April is Jazz Appreciation Month, as well as National Poetry Month. This week's Take Five celebrates both art forms in the same place. Each of the five songs featured here was originally written as a ...

In 1978, poet-classicist Anne Carson's older brother Michael left home; she spoke to him only a half-dozen more times before his unexpected death in Copenhagen in 2000. In the months after his death, ...