“The Laughing Heart.” – Read by Tom Waits, written by Charles Bukowski This reading by Tom Waits captures the essence of Bukowski’s The Laughing Heart — raw, weary wisdom spoken through the gravel of ...

A spoken word event giving the chance for local women to earn their performing stripes is coming to Barrow next weekend.

AP film writer Jake Coyle says Ubeimar Rios creates a figure of farcical perfection: a tortured artist, equal parts comedy ...

Production photos have been released for the Fountain Theatre’s West Coast premiere of POETRY FOR THE PEOPLE: THE JUNE JORDAN ...

Grammy-considered poet and Pharr Poet Laureate Amanda Puryear El returns with Nightly Dosage, a deeply personal spoken-word ...

Join the Wood County District Public Library and the Bowling Green Arts Council for a Spoken Word Night on Feb. 5 at 6:30 p.m. in the 1st Floor Meeting Room at the Bowling Green library. You’ll get ...

Art Meets Poetry returns Feb. 6-7 to McKinney's Collin County History Museum, pairing 44 visual artists with poets from ...

On Sunday, January 25, 2026, poetry took center stage in Amador County as families, students, and community members gathered ...

On Saturday, January 24, six of our speech and debaters competed at the Falcon Tournament in Vancouver, Washington at Prairie ...

Local writers will take the stage Jan. 30 at St. Ambrose University for Speak Your Peace, a spoken word competition where the ...

The spoken word event featured poet Sarah Kay and performances from Stanford’s Spoken Word Collective, which disentangled ...

Ryo Orikasa discusses how he transforms literature, poetry, and written language into animated form through text, sound, and silence.