I love being in front of an audience. As a true-to-form Aries sun, Leo rising, I've done everything — given hour-long speeches with ease, gone on TV to promote Elite Daily, worked as a full-time ...

The youngest inaugural poet in American history, Amanda Gorman, who has also amassed a sizable following for her creative advocacy, recently initiated a thrilling professional endeavor: teaching a new ...

While being autistic presents me with a lot of frustrating challenges, it also gives me a lot of gifts. Autism isn’t a disease or something to be “cured,” it’s a fundamental difference in the way my ...

Beginning in February, I’m teaching a class at the 92nd Street Y on reading poetry–your own and others’–aloud to an audience (very useful for poets and public speakers). Here’s the description: This ...

For award-winning artist Amanda Shea, spoken word poetry is more than just performance; it’s transcendent. “It’s an invitation to the spirit,” Shea said on GBH’s Under the Radar. “It’s also an ...

A Cincinnati woman is using her poetry to help inspire others as well as create meaningful change.Malia Forte said her journey performing poetry began in 2020 when she went to the Martin Luther King ...

Music makes singular impressions on every listener and interpretations of a composition’s lines or lyrics differ from one person to the next. In the same way, poetry — reading, writing or performing — ...

Iconoclast presents an evening of poetry featuring Houston’s Poet Laureate, Dr. Robin Davidson, and performance poet Jasmmine Mendez. Also presenting will be three young women from the Iconoclast ...