It’s J. Ivy’s moment. Just ask Ivy himself, who earlier this year successfully lobbied the Recording Academy after six years of effort to add a “Best Spoken Word Poetry Album” category. In previous ...

Long before Jessie Reyez was celebrated for her voice, poetry was the Toronto-bred musician’s “first love.” The Grammy-nominated and Juno Award winner’s music often feels like spoken poetry, backed by ...

We're celebrating National Poetry Month with a video reading from a different North Texas poet each week. Poet and professor Darius Ajai Frasure dedicates his time helping young people discover and ...

In the wake of Malcolm X’s assassination in the winter of 1965, Black and brown poets like Amiri Baraka, Miguel Algarin, and Sonia Sanchez consciously rejected effete paper poems for those that sought ...

I hate sharing my poetry with people. I don’t mean that I get all sheepish and a little red in the face, but bashfully and begrudgingly do it anyway. No, I mean that I abhor it. It’s counterintuitive, ...

On World Hindi Day (Jan 10) spoken word artist Nayab Midha goes down the memory lane to recite her love for Hindi language, poetry and the emotion that is Delhi ...

Spoken word poetry is not merely an art form but a communion of soul, experience and understanding. Spend one night tucked in the back of House of Hathor on Columbia’s North Main Street and you’ll ...

October is Fillipino American Heritage Month! Unfortunately, this article is a little late. For the occasion, I did a deep dive into Facebook’s abyss to find Arianna “Lady B” Basco’s (Dante Basco’s ...

Young poets, accompanied by some more seasoned writers, will take over the Lincoln Theatre on April 26. At 7:30 p.m., the three Mayhem Poets, spoken-word artists with a flair for both comedy and drama ...

Lana Del Rey professes her devotion to Los Angeles in “L.A. Who Am I to Love You,” a spoken word piece from her new audiobook of poems Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass, out Tuesday. “I left my ...

"We laugh loudly, love proudly, and face heartbreaks like a curtain raiser. If you look deep into our history, it is full of such trailblazers. We write the most beautiful verses, tell the wittiest ...