Slam poetry is usually slagged off the same way that interpretive dance or improv comedy is–as a thing most people dread having friends ask to watch them do. Even people who love poetry are often ...

Poet Neil Hilborn was at the 2013 Rustbelt Regional Poetry Slam when he gave this heartbreaking performance. Titled "OCD," the love poem chronicles Hilborn finding (and losing) love, all because of ...

While visiting Cape Cod in 1981, Dennis Rhodes picked up the inaugural issue of Provincetown Poet magazine and said to his friend, “That’s what I want to be, a Provincetown poet.” Moving to ...

The daily lowdown on books, publishing, and the occasional author behaving badly. A video of poet Neil Hilborn performing his slam poem "OCD" went viral this week, garnering over 1,800,000 views on ...

It's not unusual for a guy to write a poem about love. It happens everyday. But this was no ordinary poem, nor was it any ordinary poet. Neil Hilborn has battled with Obssessive Compulslive Disoder ...

Neil Hilborn is a poet, and a passionate one at that. And he wrote and performed a particularly touching poem about love and losing it. And then proceeded to take over the internet, with his viral ...

Dennis Rhodes remembers banging his head on the cinder block wall. He was a kid. The banging was a compulsion. The obsession was aligning his head just right with the lines on the wall. Rhodes has ...

Dealing with a mental health issue can affect every part of your life ― including your relationships. Case in point: This viral spoken poem by artist Neil Hilborn, which details the complexities of ...

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