Slut shaming is no joke, but this poem, “Bread Thread” by Emily Weitzman, manages condemn shamers in a deliciously hilarious way. Delivered at the 2016 Women of the World Poetry Slam in March, the ...
SAN ANTONIO – A firefighter’s job is grueling, but it’s not just physically dangerous. Seeing so much death and destruction is mentally and emotionally wearing. However, in a profession like ...
Meet Donovan Livingston, a member of Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education. He just earned his master’s degree from the hallowed Boston institution and, according to Twitter, he intends to ...
Nayab Midha speaks to HerStory on finding her voice through poetry, her special show, Rajkumari and telling the female PoV of ...
GOLDEN VALLEY, Minn. --A Golden Valley teenager is a national champion - because of the powerful way she chooses her words. Armstrong High School senior Stella Wright put together a poem about ...
Poets Hanif Abdurraqib, Franny Choi, Dan "Sully" Sullivan, and club founder Peter Kahn have curated a new anthology celebrating the legacy of a... A high school spoken-word club changed students' ...
Yep, it's that time of year again: Valentine's Day. But, forget about all the hearts, flowers, and chocolates for a hot second, and turn your attention to something that's long been overlooked: the ...
Most people could probably tell you that the term "resting b*tch face" was probably not coined to be a compliment, but there's a reason so many women cheerfully adopt both the look and the title, and ...
Word Up! Poetry Festival” will be held from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the Central Library downtown on. Student teams and ...
Jason Reynolds, an author from Rockville, Maryland, will perform spoken word poems Saturday as part of the Africa Alive! Community Day 2009 sponsored by the National Museum of African Art. ATM talked ...
More than 1,000 Cartagena students request to join “Trovos en la escuela”, a programme celebrating the region’s traditional ...
When Peter Kahn became an English teacher at the Chicago-area Oak Park and River Forest High School, he was terrified of teaching poetry. "Poetry was my least favorite subject as a student, and my ...