TEXARKANA, Ark. - The community was invited to the Salvation Army of Texarkana’s Boys and Girls Club Wednesday to watch young poets compete in their first poetry slam. In partnership with the ...

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A slam poet, or spoken word artist, can be a social activist, a stage performer and, above all, a passionate poet at the core. Slam poetry is a fairly new, unique form of expression that began with ...

This was the loud and unapologetic environment I stepped into at Get Lit’s Classic Slam, a poetry competition where more than 50 high schools participate annually. It was, as Tiffany Snow, Get Lit’s ...

Gayle Danley crawled along the floor of the Banneker-Douglass Museum, smacked the carpet with her hand and belted out a line from her championship work "Bully Poem." "Jessie Patterson," Danley boomed ...

TEXARKANA, Ark. — Young poets from the Salvation Army of Texarkana's Boys and Girls Club took center stage at their first poetry slam, held in partnership with the Texarkana Regional Arts and ...