“It’s been a long time, since I’ve wanted to die, it makes me feel, like taking off, my skin suit, and seeing how, my light flies all, on its own, neon, and bouncy like a, wannabe star,” Ada Limón ...

Spoken Word and performance poetry is on the rise again in Guyana. Two shows have been advertised over the past month which seem to be generating quite a bit of excitement and these have emerged to ...

Blindspotting's Carlos López Estrada crafts a unique perspective of the world with his latest sociological experiment, Summertime. Imagine a world where poetry can be found everywhere. You walk down ...

A love letter to Los Angeles and, especially, spoken-word poetry, “Summertime” certainly stands out from the pack of summertime theatrical releases. “This morning the sewer waters smelled like ...

There's a new category in this year's Grammy Awards for best spoken-word poetry album, and one of the nominees is a voice we've been hearing for decades. (SOUNDBITE OF SPOKEN-WORD POEM, "BLACK FIST ...

For Liana Wallace, spoken word poetry means vulnerability. A Georgetown University sophomore and a 2019 Evanston Township High School alumna, Wallace said a club she joined in middle school introduced ...

Yale’s two spoken word performance groups, ¡Oye! and WORD at Yale, create spaces for student self-expression and vulnerability while pushing the boundaries of written poetry. WORD’s fall semester ...

When I first began performing poems as a 17-year-old in 2008, I had barely seen any spoken word, and neither had any of my friends. These days, when I speak to the diverse range of teenagers in the ...

When you imagine a lyric video maker, you’re likely to think of music—the boom of the bass in a pop song or the silky flow of rap music. However, what if we crossed that line? What if lyric-like ...

If you haven’t seen Robert Glasper and J. Ivy in concert before, your chance to do so will come in August 2024. The two artists are scheduled to perform at the Ravinia Festival in Highland Park, ...