On Sunday afternoon, a pioneer of performance poetry will return to Philadelphia for a rare appearance. Marty Watt of Philadelphia is credited with turning poetry readings into performance art in the ...

A teen's poetry slam performance is exploding on social media because of its profound outlook on the teen's place in society as a young, white male. Fourteen-year-old Royce Mann titled the piece, ...

On Oct. 24, the Woodberry Poetry Room’s T.S. Eliot Memorial Reading was held in the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, spotlighting Cecilia Vicuña’s creative work. As a Chilean poet, artist, ...

A musical staple of Santa Monica is wasting no time starting its 40th anniversary season, sending its audience into a spiritually and philosophically engaging journey this weekend. On Sunday, the ...

In the last few years, spoken word poetry has taken the literary community by storm. This popular genre of performance-based poetry is written to be performed aloud, and is spoken at events and ...

BHUBANESWAR: For performance poet Megha Rao, poetry is all about getting close to your raw emotions. Speaking at the session ‘Poetry and Prose: It’s in the Bones’ at 12th edition of Odisha Literary ...

Interest in poetry has been rising over the past year, creating an opportunity for renewed community engagement as a new local poet laureate takes the helm. "A lot of people don't know what the word ...