The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. IOWA CITY — It’s not often that “thinking inside the box” is lauded as a winning strategy. But for ...

The winning Team will compete in international poetry competitions such as the U.S. National Poetry Slam in August and the Canadian Festival of Spoken Word in November. Every year, Toronto Poetry Slam ...

A group of Lafayette poets will bare their souls and flex their performance muscles at one of the country’s largest slam poetry festivals this week. Five artists with Lafayette-based nonprofit ...

Durban has been announced as the host city for the 5th World Slam Poetry Competition and Convention, scheduled to take place from October 5 to 11, 2026. The annual international poetry competition is ...

As the Twin Cities’ slam poetry scene rebuilds, BuckSlam — a new organization dedicated to the style of competitive poetry performance — has quickly established itself at the forefront. Now, as its ...

When McDaniel High School librarian Nancy Sullivan originally started the first youth poetry slam competitions in Portland in 2005, she didn’t have any concept of the new event’s staying power.