MIDLAND, Texas — Does your child love words and using them in poetic ways? Then they may have fun with other word lovers at the Poetry Slam for kids and tweens. The Midland Library at the Plaza, will ...

When McDaniel High School librarian Nancy Sullivan originally started the first youth poetry slam competitions in Portland in 2005, she didn’t have any concept of the new event’s staying power.

Dean Schillinger, MD, a practicing physician at San Francisco General Hospital, worked with the slam poetry nonprofit, Youth Speaks, to create the award-winning “The Bigger Picture" campaign. The ...

As we continue to navigate the global pandemic, parents and students are clamoring for new experiences and ways to connect with friends, old and new. Children's Theatre of Elgin has answered that call ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Slam host Ngoma. Credit: Brian Slattery Photo Memories of the Children’s Crusade. A vision of ...

When Olivia Vella’s seventh grade teacher asked every student to write a monologue on a topic about which they were passionate, Vella immediately knew what she wanted to say. She wanted to tell girls ...

The first Salish Sea Poetry Festival opens tomorrow across Downtown Bellingham, with readings, food, visual arts and even ...

Roald Dahl’s Imaginormous Challenge invited children aged 5-12 across the country to submit their most imaginative story ideas in 100 words or less for the chance to win, like Charlie Bucket in ...

A group of Lafayette poets will bare their souls and flex their performance muscles at one of the country’s largest slam poetry festivals this week. Five artists with Lafayette-based nonprofit ...

Stockton’s All-City Poetry Slam begins today at 5 p.m. in the Stewart Hazelton Room at the Cesar Chavez Library, 605 N. El Dorado St. Organized by With Our Words Youth Poetry Collective, the slam ...