Powerful imagery presented in words sung, spoken, and spit out is the shtick of I Was Born With Two Tongues, the Chicago-based Pan Asian spoken word group presented by the New WORLD Theater at Bowker ...

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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 ...

The notion of poetry as words written on a page and read silently is a relatively recent historical development. Older, and perhaps more exciting, is the tradition of poetry as performance. Ancient ...

What: Poetry in Music with Colleen O’Brien and Chris Lee. When: 7 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 7. Where: Rialto Theater Center, Devereaux Room, 228 E. Fourth St., Loveland ...

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, ...

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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. Sign up for the Hello, Houston! daily ...

Anyone who has heard Jamila Woods' music knows she's an extraordinary artist. In our inaugural edition of Slingshot, you'll also learn what an extraordinary person she is, too. Woods' lyrics depict a ...

This story is part of Lit City, our comprehensive guide to the literary geography of Los Angeles. Long Beach has a long and too often overlooked role in Southern California’s artistic history, from ...