Involving students in planning and fostering a supportive environment can encourage even the most reticent to participate, one expert says.

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Julia Tudorica organized the first event in October 2025 when she heard that East Chapel Hill High School's literary magazine ...

Little Rock poet and assistant professor Marie Kressin will be tonight's featured poet for Wednesday Night Poetry, at ...

CLEVELAND — Morgan Paige and Tom Parker are the co-creators of Poetry Unplugged, a monthly spoken word poetry open mic that has been taking Cleveland by storm. But as they explain, their writing ...

Martin Luther King Jr. Day was first celebrated in 1986. Some 40 years later, the third Monday in January continues to be a moment for reflection on freedom of speech as well as freedom for all people ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — On July 29, Grand Rapids coffee shop Scorpion Hearts Club continues its monthly program of all-ages poetry open mic nights. “It’s a very welcoming and encouraging group, ...

If you're looking to start the new year rhyming and flowing, Laredo BorderSlam Poetry invites poets and newcomers to share ...

The Headwaters Unitarian Universalist Fellowship invites the community to an evening of music, poetry and performance at Open ...

On a recent evening in Napa, chairs were pulled into a loose circle, a microphone was tested and a five-minute timer was set. One by one, people stepped forward — some seasoned performers, others ...

Brian Robinson, organizer of Open Mic Surgery, the poetry open mic running for almost a year at Never Ending Books, walked into the State Street spot carrying a giant unicorn-shaped piñata. “You don’t ...