Poets and Poetry

From terror to relief, humour to grief, death may be a black subject, but is one of the richest seams of inspiration to poets, and you simply can't avoid it...  

The poets long ago left for home, the venues are back to hosting live music, and organizers have returned to their day-to-day lives following National Poetry Slam 2008 , which was held in Madison in early ...  

The clock is ticking. In three minutes and 10 seconds could you pay homage to viciously slain Guatemalan women, articulate the woes of war or explain your complex marriage to God.  

Eli Khamarov once said " Poets are soldiers that liberate words from steadfast possession of definition" while Yolanda Giovanni Jr described the best poet is when he captures a reader ...."Ever been kidnapped, ...  

Poetry lends itself to all occasions, happy and sad, everyday and rare. It offers a multitude of forms -- the exquisite slenderness of a haiku, the sprawling pages of an epic, the rigor of a sonnet, the ...  

"Poetry slams began in Chicago in 1984," reads Bill MacMillan, the evening's "bout manager" and de facto emcee, as he goads a standing-room-only crowd in Madison's Bartell Theatre.  

With eyes full of inspiration, amateur poets got a chance to test their spoken word mettle in the presence of friends and many of the competitors in National Poetry Slam 2008 in a quartet of late night Solo Slams this week, held at Genna's Lounge and the Mercury Café after the Tuesday and...  

After coming in third at the second bout Thursday evening at the 2008 National Poetry Slam, members of the the Madison Slam Team won't be going on to the semifinals Friday night for individual pieces.  

Yes, there is a lot of style over substance; yes, the most thoughtfully written poems rarely beat the loud and/or flashy poems; yes, the judging can be ...  

Guest post from our pal, Brian , on how one of my favorite poets of the 60s captured interstitial time to make art.  

The granddaddy of spoken word events, the National Poetry Slam, is coming to Madison this August 3-9. Poets representing 80 teams from all over North ...  

Record company Naxos has just issued a CD titled "Schubert Lied - Romantic Poets, vol.  

The poets are going to the show. Next week, the Nebraska Writers Collective team will head to Madison, Wis., to compete at the 2008 National Poetry Slam.  

The Worcester Poets Asylum has been sending teams of poets to the National Poetry Slam Finals performance poetry competition for more than a decade, and this year's team is among the most experienced to date. Really, the only thing the team is lacking is funding - the Poets Asylum has been on...  

BOLTON'S first youth poetry slam takes place at Bolton Central Library tomorrow night.