Suheir Hammad, a Palestinian-American poet, performer and activist, gave an innovative, percussive performance in List 120 Wednesday night. Met with cheers and applause, Hammad turned an apparent ...

Kelly Zen-Yie Tsai, 27, is a Chinese/Taiwanese American spoken word artist who grew up in the suburbs of Chicago. A two season veteran of Russell Simmons Presents HBO Def Poetry, Kelly’s been involved ...

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Rochester Institute of Technology will host the HBO Def Poetry Slam, at 8 p.m. on April 18. Headlined by poets Bassey, Roger Bonair-Agard and muMs (of HBO’s Oz), student poets from RIT and the ...

Poet Suheir Hammad performs her work at Russell Simmons' Def Poetry Jam in Harrison Auditorium on Saturday night, hosted by SPECTRUM. Hammad is one of eight poets in the Tony award-winning show, which ...

Seventeen years after the HBO show ‘Def Poetry Jam’ went off the air, co-creator Danny Simmons is reviving the spoken word showcase in Philadelphia. Danny Simmons, creator of Def Poetry Jam, has ...

After lighting the fuse for the hip-hop explosion more than two decades ago, Russell Simmons has extended his Defness to the Def Poetry Jam tour, coming straight from Broadway. With rhymes as diverse ...

Russell Simmons is looking to restart his Def Poetry Jam and is talking with Grammy-winner Chance the Rapper to host it. Simmons teased the new project, which would be called All Def Poetry, yesterday ...