Brittany Shostak lets the audience dictate her poetry. Shostak is a slam poet who will compete in this weekend's Tucson Poetry Festival. It's only after going through the first "nerve-racking" round ...

Roger Mathews, 81, of Labrador joined more than a dozen senior citizens at Sanctum Forge Boxing, Burleigh Heads for the “Gran Slam” on Sunday. They took part in an unusual slam poetry workshop hosted ...

Craig muMs Grant’s biggest success as an actor was the role of Poet on the HBO prison drama “Oz,” but fans of that series were accustomed to seeing him credited simply as muMs. It was a name he ...

There’s a creative group of students at Pittsburg High School (PHS) who’ve been stirring up attention and winning slam poetry contests throughout the Bay Area over the past year. A part of the PHS ...

One by one, poets shrug their way to the stage, pausing for a breath before diving in. Without fail, someone from the crowd offers the rallying cry: "Let's go, poet!" The room answers in its own ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — I suspect most TV viewers enjoyed rooting for Faizan Zaki, a 13-year-old from Plano, Texas, as he stood on a stage last Thursday inside a National Harbor, Maryland, theater and ...