Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Benjamin Zephaniah brought poetry to the masses - Roberto Ricciuti Benjamin Zephaniah – who has died today, after a short illness ...

BALTIMORE, Jan. 7, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- In Need of Seawater is a documentary short by writer Mark Anthony Thomas that brings poetry to life through performance-driven filmmaking. Critics have praised ...

Fifteen eighth grade students and some teachers from Cortez Middle School will present their poetry Dec. 10 at the Sunflower Theatre. Local poet Lisa C. Taylor might also read poetry, said English ...

The notion of poetry as words written on a page and read silently is a relatively recent historical development. Older, and perhaps more exciting, is the tradition of poetry as performance. Ancient ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook A microphone always helps get your message to the masses. But in the right hands, a microphone ...

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MotherSong, a poem play performance by Annette Billings and Dr. Jennifer Gordon, is 2 p.m. Sunday, March 15 at the Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library.

In the last few years, spoken word poetry has taken the literary community by storm. This popular genre of performance-based poetry is written to be performed aloud, and is spoken at events and ...

One Friday night in April a group of about 30 people descended into the basement of Cornelia Street Cafe in Greenwich Village for the first annual NYC Code Poetry Performance Festival. The poems, ...

A poetry event on Thursday, Feb. 20, and a hip-hop performance on Friday, Feb. 21, originally slated for the Foundry Theater, ...