Fiona Shepherd on this year’s must-see Poetry and Performance events ...
The notion of poetry as words written on a page and read silently is a relatively recent historical development. Older, and perhaps more exciting, is the tradition of poetry as performance. Ancient ...
On Oct. 24, the Woodberry Poetry Room’s T.S. Eliot Memorial Reading was held in the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, spotlighting Cecilia Vicuña’s creative work. As a Chilean poet, artist, ...
Rupi Kaur, an India-born Canadian national, has been performing poetry since 2009 but she rose to prominence only in 2015 through Instagram. With 4.4 million followers now and a world tour lined up ...
DarkMatter, a transgender South-Asian performance art duo composed of Alok Vaid-Menon and Janani Balasubramanian, performed their #ItGetsBitter spoken word poetry as Rainbow Alliance’s fall speaker ...
“What is poetry?” This is ostensibly at the core of “Chodyanthinte Utharavadi”, an act of performance poetry that is part of the ongoing 50th State Exhibition of Art at Durbar Hall. But M.R. Vishnu ...
Author and poet Jerry Pinto opened the 2024 IHC Theatre Festival in New Delhi with a first-of-its-kind solo poetry performance. In a free-wheeling format that took in nostalgia, humour, and thoughts ...
The University of Michigan Slam Poetry Club hosted its final campus performance of the academic year Thursday in the Michigan League basement to an audience of 40 people. The themes of the poems ...