Member Poetry

I don't feel constrained to be personal or revelatory in the way that I do when I am writing poetry." And that's a lesson Felix has had to learn. ...  

But he didn’t have very much experience with writing poetry. He was taking my class because I had agreed to this monitoring by his coach, and because I’m ...  

To take the scoring too seriously is to miss the point of what slam poetry is all about.” While the style of slamming may be distracting from the craft, ...  

"There's two things we're known for," spit the slam poetry duo on the stage of the Student Union Theatre. "Breaking hearts and punching throats. ...  

The University boasts a portfolio of student organizations that are as multifaceted and diverse as its student population. Most of these organizations were ...  

I've been writing poetry for six years and over the last two years I've been collaborating with musicians who I've met as an Emerging Artist in Residence at ...  

A page where users can send in their own particular inspirations for writing poetry, or read about those of others. Alternatively they can simply send in ...  

Prior experience with slam poetry or slam competitions isn’t necessary. The competition on Sept. 25 was a first for junior Katie Goodell, who was picked to ...  

Slam poetry is a kind of performed poetry that has gained popularity since its birth in 1986 in Chicago. Slam poets are often known as “spoken word artists. ...  

His craft is slam poetry, a genre of poetry that is read out loud and delivered in a rhythmic and often intense fashion. When asked about how he describes ...  

Organizer and businessman Michael Ansara had been clandestinely writing poetry for years when his friend (and former congressman, but not the guitar player) ...  

... DC, he was a passionate reader who loved military history and poetry. He had his father's favorite poem memorized -- Robert Louis Stevenson's "Requiem."  

He still enjoys the buzz of making money: “But the risk-reward ratio between sitting down and spending a lot of time writing poetry, then performing it and ...  

... literature to help himself figure out who he was, and his favorite poem then was "Requiem," Robert Louis Stevenson's morose ode to self-determination. ...  

Slam Poetry was started in 1985 by a construction worker named Mark Smith because poetry slams were getting too boring, Miesse said. ...