The Sedona Poetry Slam returns for its 16th season with a kick off on Saturday, Sept. 28. Performance poets will bring high-energy, competit...

  Buddy Wakefield performs "Pretend" in the final round of the 2004 iWPS in Greenville, SC. Videographers: Gabrielle Bouliane and ...

  Corbet Dean performs "Habit of Hate" on the stage of the Individual Wold Poetry Slam Finals in 2004. Videographers: Gabrielle Bo...

Shane Koyczan performs "Beethoven" in the Individual National Poetry Slam Championship 2000 in Providence, R.I. Lead videographer:...

Taylor Mali. MC, introduces Ali Langston, performing his poem "For What Are You Willing to Die? at Individual World Poetry Slam 2004 in...

T.S. Elliot's Lost Hip-Hop Poem  By Jeremy Richards Performed by Jeremy Richards and Nathan Ramos  at the  2002   National Poetry Slam&#...

 Aja, Uninvited and Tahami Salah from Nuyorican, NY performs "Faith" during  NPS 2007 in Austin, TX as an unscored poem in compens...

  December 2000, FlagSlam founded. First FlagSlam Dynasty The Founders' Era  In 2001, 12th National Poetry Slam in Seattle, Wash.: Grand...

Gypsee Yo from Atlanta, Ga., performs "To My Daughter, Emma" during the finals night showcase of remarkable poems selected from pr...

Host Mike Henry introduces emcee Patricia Smith who introduces NPS contestant, Shappy with his poem "Does She Like Me?"

Taylor Mali, MC, introduces Celena Glenn who performs her poem, "Roach Motel" in Round 2 of iWPS 2004 in Greenville, SC. Videograp...

 Paula Friedrich introduces Cass King performing "It's Not Easy Being a Victim in the '90s."

Patricia Smith introduces GNO at the National Poetry Slam in Providence, RI in August of 2000 where he performs, "Say, 'WORD'.&...

At NPS 2009 in West Palm Beach, FL, Taylor Mali of New York, NY offers "What Teachers Make" at the PG Slam in a public library. Th...

(Written in response to numerous Facebook posts that began "Your poems are not good because ..." and "in the old days of poet...