Spoken word artists perform with hip hop stars at the 2024 Dodge Poetry Festival. During the 2024 Dodge Poetry Festival at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC), iconic spoken word artists ...

"Gosh, stop it with the trauma stuff already! Why is everything about trauma?" A reader posted in response to one of my last articles on trauma responses, igniting a firestorm of social-media backlash ...

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Spoken word poetry is not merely an art form but a communion of soul, experience and understanding. Spend one night tucked in the back of House of Hathor on Columbia’s North Main Street and you’ll ...