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"Kids Today" - The (Young) Poets Speak

Steve Heilig | Posted 04.30.2012

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Unless you have teens in your family or work with them in some capacity, it's easy to lose touch with what being a young person is like. This is one reason I try to go to the local Youth Speaks Teen Poetry Slam every year.

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In Defense of Performance Poetry

Patrick Pressl | Posted 05.24.2012

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While roaming the Internet the other day (a dangerous habit as many well know), I came across an essay titled "Poetry is not a Performance Art" writte...

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School Bus Brawl, Team Rivalries, And Pokémon: This Week's Juiciest High School News

| Posted 12.14.2011

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Every week, HuffPost High School rounds up the best local news stories about high school students from across the country through our friends at Patch...

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The Super Bowl Of Poetry

Patrick Pressl | Posted 11.28.2011

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On the night of August 13th, just outside the Berklee Performance Center in Boston, Massachusetts Avenue was flooded with eager ears and a few newly...

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5 Incredible LGBTQ Poets

Patrick Pressl | Posted 08.28.2011

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On June 24th, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed a marriage equality bill into law after it passed a senate vote 33 to 29. The law will become effe...

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Behind the Making of Louder Than a Bomb

Marshall Fine | Posted 07.23.2011

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Greg Jacobs recalls, "There was a line of kids down the block -- black, white, everything else -- it turned out these kids were performing for their peers -- something I couldn't have imagined."

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The Super Bowl Of Poetry

Patrick Pressl | Posted 07.05.2011

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Slam poetry is, in itself, a conundrum. Slams are competitions in which poets are judged by random audience members on their poem's content, delivery,...

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Celebrate Poetry Month With Events Around Town

Posted 06.04.2011

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April is National Poetry Month and Denver has plenty of events to celebrate. Go to an open mike, or hone your skills with the written word at a worksh...

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Highlights From the 2010 National Poetry Slam

John Lundberg | Posted 11.17.2011

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The five-day 2010 National Poetry Slam was decided last weekend in St. Paul Minnesota, with the hometown team, Soap Boxing, taking the honors for the second year in a row.

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Louder Than A Bomb: Slam Poetry Festival Allows Teen Poets To Shine

HuffPost Eyes&Ears Local | Laurie Koblesky | Posted 05.25.2011

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Produced by HuffPost's Eyes & Ears Citizen Journalism Unit The tenth annual "Louder Than a Bomb" youth poetry slam exploded across the stage of the V...

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Allegra Huston Aims Her Creative Storm at NASA's Mission Control

Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 05.25.2011

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It is appropriate that journalist and memoirist Allegra Huston conducts regular writing workshops called "The Imaginative Storm." If the name Huston...

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Metrophobia: Are We Afraid Of Poetry?

Kim Rosen | Posted 11.17.2011

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For the last few generations, our nation has managed to marginalize poetry, an art that is and always has been central to the species.

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Top Performers from the 2009 National Poetry Slam

John Lundberg | Posted 11.17.2011

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Sixty-eight slam poetry teams from as far away as Fort Worth and Vancouver descended on West Palm Beach, Florida last week to compete in the 2009 Nati...

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Greening Hollywood: Arianna on The Green Carpet at The Millennium Awards

Paige Donner | Posted 05.25.2011

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Arianna was chosen to present the California Environmental Leadership Award to the LA Unified School District at Global Green's annual Millennium Awards held in Santa Monica June 14th.

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American Indian Slam Poets

John Lundberg | Posted 11.17.2011

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Slam poetry gives Indian American high-schoolers a chance both to explore and express their rich culture and to celebrate the music and rhythms of American Indian languages.

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