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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

There wasn’t a dry eye in the room during the latest Golden Buzzer moment on “America’s Got Talent.” Brandon Leake, 27, a community college counselor in Stockton, California, wowed the judges with an ...

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 ...

From an early age, K Love the Poet felt a deep responsibility to nurture and uplift those around her. As a child, she gathered neighborhood kids on her porch, braided their hair, and took them to the ...