Nearly a dozen middle and high school students got on stage today in hopes of their poetry performance getting themselves to ...

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PUTNEY — Next Stage Arts is preparing to welcome poet and playwright Court Dorsey, along with Grammy winning cellist Euegene ...

BALTIMORE, Jan. 7, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- In Need of Seawater is a documentary short by writer Mark Anthony Thomas that brings poetry to life through performance-driven filmmaking. Critics have praised ...

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 ...

It’s been described as embarrassing, clichéd or “unhelpful singsong.” Many poets dislike it too, but it’s a style they’ve learned from each other.

One Friday night in April a group of about 30 people descended into the basement of Cornelia Street Cafe in Greenwich Village for the first annual NYC Code Poetry Performance Festival. The poems, ...