PORT ANGELES — Poet Jason Carney’s world changed one day in a Dallas psychiatric hospital. His roommate, Patrick, was a gay man afflicted with AIDS. “He was dying,” Carney remembered. The two men’s ...

The 12 kids sat scattered in pews facing the podium, listening as their instructor went over details for the poetry slam that would cap off their three-day winter poetry camp. Emanuelee "Outspoken" ...

There's a trend catching on with teens in Tucson. This one is making their English teachers happy. Spoken word poetry has a growing following in high schools there. There's a trend catching on with ...

WILLIAMSBURG — This Friday, Williamsburg will be center stage for the state’s biggest slam poetry event when the Virginia Team Poetry Slam Championship comes to the Kimball Theatre. Originally called ...

Research paper presentations usually don't make much of a performance. A Skyview High college-level English course changed that recently, shifting away from the sterilized diligence of research to the ...