For those of you already familiar with slam poetry, you don't need me to beg or cajole you into going to the 25th Anniversary Extravaganza at the Metro. The rest of you, your heads filled to the brim ...

Admit it, GeekDads: you find ideas irresistible. And unconventional ideas expressed in high-octane language? Resistance is futile. It's okay, though – this particular behavioral bug is really more of ...

Ask Shayna “Simba” Castano where she got her “Lion King” nickname and she’ll shrug. It’s just something that stuck, she explains, possibly because of her hair, a thick, black mane. Other than her ...

This is Notes From the Edge, a series reporting from the sharp edge of the UK’s creative industries. This week, we discover what’s stirring in the world of Slam Poetry, why it matters and how it ...

“It’s free. It’s fun. It’s not in Cambridge. We cater to a different community.” So says Janae Johnson, co-founder and slam master of the House Slam, housed at the Haley House Bakery Café in the heart ...

Samantha Bucci has a passion for poetry slams and spoken word, and sharing a space for poetry, especially in the Fitchburg ...

Illustration by Adriana Georgopulos.(Saul Willams photo by Walter McBride / Getty Images / Ntozake Shange photo by Daniel Zuchnik / WireImage) the greatest Americans have not been born yet they are ...

WoMag editor Victor D. Infante had never heard of Worcester when he met the 1996 Worcester Poetry Slam Team in Oregon. Then ...

Nia Lewis hated dodging strangers making leering comments on the street. First the catcalls made her angry. Then they inspired her. “You must understand that a body is just a body, a silhouette isn’t ...