There’s a creative group of students at Pittsburg High School (PHS) who’ve been stirring up attention and winning slam poetry contests throughout the Bay Area over the past year. A part of the PHS ...

Brittany Shostak lets the audience dictate her poetry. Shostak is a slam poet who will compete in this weekend's Tucson Poetry Festival. It's only after going through the first "nerve-racking" round ...

Roger Mathews, 81, of Labrador joined more than a dozen senior citizens at Sanctum Forge Boxing, Burleigh Heads for the “Gran Slam” on Sunday. They took part in an unusual slam poetry workshop hosted ...

One by one, poets shrug their way to the stage, pausing for a breath before diving in. Without fail, someone from the crowd offers the rallying cry: "Let's go, poet!" The room answers in its own ...

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 ...