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 ...

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 ...

Photo of middle, high school students, and staff at the 2023 Youth Poetry Summit. Writing. Emotional expression. Stage presence. All of the fundamental skills of performance poetry will be on display ...

People who are shopping for art should not be sidetracked by performance, unless they consider performance an essential part of art. That is the conundrum in considering the 2003 Mercedes-Benz SL500 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. TOKYO (AP) — Kazuko Shiraishi, a leading ...

When Jason Reynolds's mother asked him to draw a sketch to honor a grandmother who had just died, he composed his first poem. Reynolds didn't think he could do her justice with a picture, so the ...

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, ...

TOKYO (AP) — Kazuko Shiraishi, a leading name in modern Japanese “beat” poetry, known for her dramatic readings, at times with jazz music, has died. She was 93. Shiraishi, whom American poet and ...