When McDaniel High School librarian Nancy Sullivan originally started the first youth poetry slam competitions in Portland in 2005, she didn’t have any concept of the new event’s staying power.

There was no ceremony to mark the final open mic at the Cantab Lounge last spring. The basement bar was known to sell out on Wednesdays, despite the venue’s many flaws. The stairs were old and narrow ...

It’s time for a poetry slam revival, according to Boston Poetry Slam producer Myles Taylor. Slam poetry, which is a competitive event where poets recite spoken-word poetry in front of an audience and ...