This year's winner of the National Book Award in Poetry, Lighthead displays a riffing, wildly restless insistence and astonishing brio. What I admire most about this book is the way that Hayes ...

"I love the fact that I am black, and no one will be changing that," the 17-year-old from Rochester ... to vent through poetry and spoken word performances. At the festival this week, young ...

When I first began performing poems as a 17-year-old in 2008, I had barely seen any spoken word, and neither had ... abuse their powers with ‘stop and search.’ Poetry has developed me as ...

Three up-and-coming spoken-word poets helped judge this year’s KidsPost poetry contest. Alexandra Huynh, Alora Young and Serena Yang started writing poetry in elementary school and are finalists ...

Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, 'The A Word', which ... of both in this year's crop of poetry books, but the demons ...

Poetry ought to be the preeminent form of this ... Four standout collections in this first month of the new year specialize in such transformation. These poets reconsider the past in order to ...

You can find the full list at this webpage, but here are some highlights: On Tuesday, April 8, teens are invited to hear spoken word poetry ... year, and will bring nine events to the District in ...

New Yorker writers reflect on the year’s best ... oldest problems in poetry—how to render the hectic presence of the person in the static notation of the written word—has, in the Internet ...

Drury is the founder and executive director of Word is Bond, a Portland nonprofit organization that works to empower young Black men. The poetry workshop is part of a Word is Bond summertime ...