The son of Chilean-Jewish parents, poet and translator Daniel Borzutzky lives in Chicago and teaches at Wright College. His third full-length volume of poetry, the smart, angry, sad and satirical “The ...
The notion of poetry as words written on a page and read silently is a relatively recent historical development. Older, and perhaps more exciting, is the tradition of poetry as performance. Ancient ...
Poetry reading, neo-burlesque performance, and fin-de-siècle brothels are outwardly different forms of art and entertainment. But the Poetry Brothel, started nine years ago in New York by Stephanie ...
On Oct. 24, the Woodberry Poetry Room’s T.S. Eliot Memorial Reading was held in the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, spotlighting Cecilia Vicuña’s creative work. As a Chilean poet, artist, ...
On Sunday afternoon, a pioneer of performance poetry will return to Philadelphia for a rare appearance. Marty Watt of Philadelphia is credited with turning poetry readings into performance art in the ...
Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook A microphone always helps get your message to the masses. But in the right hands, a microphone ...
Fifteen eighth grade students and some teachers from Cortez Middle School will present their poetry Dec. 10 at the Sunflower Theatre. Local poet Lisa C. Taylor might also read poetry, said English ...
A man speaks — no, more than that. His voice rises and falls, drawing forth syllables like waves until they break against each other. His body moves fluidly along with the lingual melody that dances ...
A student from York Suburban High School won the state championship in a poetry performance contest, beating out 14 other finalists from across the commonwealth. Steven File, a junior, was named ...
Celebrations for Día de los Muertos kicked off Monday with a poetry performance hosted by Oyé, a Latin spoken word and poetry group. The performance, held in Sudler Hall, was the first in-person event ...
Spoken Word and performance poetry is on the rise again in Guyana. Two shows have been advertised over the past month which seem to be generating quite a bit of excitement and these have emerged to ...