Our special guest was Lacroy Nixon, founder and director of Slam Connection, a relatively new spoken word poetry collective based in Williamsburg. Honestly, I didn’t know what to expect.

So far this year, my 12th grade literature students have read nearly 200,000 words ... poetry aloud in class can foster trust and empathy in the classroom community, while also emphasizing ...

Here, however, the artists provide an incredibly natural-feeling extension of the poem, emphasizing the feel and relentless beat of the melancholy behind the words. With words like this ...

From making a big deal out of the word "like" to complaining ... as you can see in Melissa Lozada-Oliva's spoken word poem "Like Totally Whatever" — because, like, maybe this trend is not ...

In fact, it's so tricky that even native English speakers with college degrees may struggle to get through it without botching a word. Titled The Chaos, the poem was penned by Dutch writer ...