HASTINGS — Performance poets Manuel Gonzalez and his 13-year-old daughter, Sarita Sol Gonzalez, will read from their work at 7 p.m. Friday in the Scott Studio Theatre at Hastings College, 806 N.

Albert Vetere Lannon, 65, is a retired union official and former professor of labor studies. The self-described “elder” of a loose-knit group of performance poets runs Uncapped Press, which recently ...

Aren't poetry slams really more performance art than literary art? Performance poetry is a way of taking academic writing one step further and engaging the audience to feel the emotions the poet is ...

In Denver, our poets are activists, bound to speaking truths, uplifting communities and, along the way, putting this town on the cultural map. Bobby LeFebre — a well-decorated performance poet with ...

Andrea Gibson, a celebrated poet and performance artist who through their verse explored gender identity, politics and their 4-year battle with terminal ovarian cancer, died Monday at age 49. Gibson’s ...

Poets Eboni Hogan and Natasha "T" Miller, plus performance artist Billione, will step onto the stage at Affirmations this month as part of the center's ongoing celebration of Black History Month.

With words and music, mime and dance, nine performance poets serenaded their audience with their interpretations of selected poems of the literary giant, Professor Wole Soyinka Thursday evening at the ...

Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. Zachary Kluckman came of age in the wake of the biggest poetry event in New Mexico history. So it’s no wonder he ...

Marc Kelly Smith had a great idea in the early 1980s: make poetry readings more palatable. He had thought, “Why is this artform that I have been writing and reading most of my life presented onstage ...