Slam Poetry Group Name Generator

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Pick a slam poetry group name from 1,000 ideas for teams, spoken word collectives, open mic nights and school clubs: stage names like Snaps Not Claps and Three Minute Fury, verse puns like Verse Case Scenario, collective names like The Spoken Few and lyrical ones like Ink and Breath.

About slam poetry group names

A slam is poetry with a scoreboard. In the common format poets perform their own work in about three minutes, judges picked from the audience hold up scores from zero to ten, and the crowd snaps its fingers when a line lands. Group names borrow from all of it, so this list leans on the stage, not the page: the mic (Hot Mic Society), the clock (Three Minute Fury, Ten Second Grace), the scores (Drop the High and Low) and the room (Snaps Not Claps, Rewind That Line).

The 1,000 names cover the kinds of groups that need one. Competitive teams get bout and bracket names. Collectives and cooperatives get names about shared voice, such as The Spoken Few and Common Breath Cooperative, with a few in Spanish like Colectivo Palabra Viva. There are neighborhood crews (Southside Syllables, Stoop Session Poets), school and college clubs (Seventh Period Slam, Varsity Voices), open mic nights and series (The Sign-Up Sheet, Last Word Standing) and youth and first-timer groups.

Tone runs from fiery (Fire in the Throat, Say It Plain) to soft (Ink and Breath, Soft Thunder) to self-aware jokes such as Loud Mouths Anonymous. Verse puns like Verse Case Scenario and Line Break Crew are here too. Everything is clean enough for a school stage.

How to choose slam poetry group names

  • Say it the way a host will. 'Give it up for Three Minute Fury!' has to work shouted over a loud room, to people who have never seen the name written down.
  • Match the name to what the group does. A competitive team can wear a bout name like The Tiebreakers, while a weekly event reads better as a night, such as First Friday Open Mic or The Sign-Up Sheet.
  • Pick a name that survives a new roster. School teams turn over every year and collectives gain and lose members, so a name about the room or the craft outlasts one about four particular people.
  • Decide who gets the joke. Enjambment Session lands with poets, and Snaps Not Claps lands with anyone who has sat through one show. For flyers aimed at newcomers, pick the second kind.
  • Search before you print shirts. Look at your city's slam scene, your school and any tournament you plan to enter, because good puns get reused and nobody has looked these names up for you.

Frequently asked questions

What makes a good slam poetry team name?

It is short, easy to announce and says something about voice or the stage. Names built on the format, such as Ten Second Grace, Perfect Ten Society and Snapping Distance, tell other poets you know the game. Names about speaking up, such as Say It Plain or Truth at Full Volume, work for any audience.

What are good names for a school poetry club or slam team?

School life gives you plenty: Seventh Period Slam, Study Hall Stanzas, Varsity Voices and Homeroom Slam Team are all on the list. There are mascot names too, such as Bulldog Bards and Falcon Verse Squad, and you can swap in your own mascot. The whole list is clean enough for a school stage and a yearbook page.

Can I use these names for an open mic night or a reading series?

Yes. One group of names is written as nights and series, such as First Friday Open Mic, Words After Dark, Last Call for Poems and The Basement Sessions. Change the day or the room to match your own event.

Is one of these names already used by another group?

Quite possibly. Nobody has looked these names up, and slam teams, collectives and open mics start and fold all the time in every city and on every campus. Check your local scene and any tournament you plan to enter before you settle on one.

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All 1,000 slam poetry group names

This is the complete list the generator above draws its random batches from, sorted A to Z and grouped by first letter.

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A: 26 names

  • A Hundred Eighty Heartbeats
  • A Verse to Quiet
  • A Whisper With Weight
  • Ache and Bloom
  • Adjective Collectors
  • Adjust the Mic
  • Advisory Period Voices
  • After Hours Anthology
  • After the Bell Poets
  • Aggressively Vulnerable
  • All at Once Then One
  • All Tens All Night
  • All Voices Assembly
  • Alliteration Nation
  • Alma Mater Out Loud
  • Amber Light Readings
  • Anaphora Anonymous
  • Answer Back Assembly
  • Apostrophe Catastrophe
  • Applaud the Poet Not the Points
  • Applause Meter
  • Area Code Anthems
  • Ask Us About Our Poem
  • Assonance Assistance
  • Audible Gasp
  • Avenue B Sides

B: 53 names

  • Baby Bards
  • Back Alley Ballads
  • Back Patio Spoken Word
  • Back Pocket Poems
  • Back to Back Bards
  • Back Wall Believers
  • Ballpoint Battalion
  • Band Room Refugees
  • Barbershop Bards
  • Bare Stage Company
  • Battery Powered Bards
  • Battle Cry Ballads
  • Bayou Verse Works
  • Bayside Breath
  • Bear Den Poets
  • Beat Per Line
  • Beat the Buzzer Bards
  • Before the Buzzer
  • Big Words Bigger Feelings
  • Birdsong Before Dawn
  • Blackout Cue
  • Blaze Orange Voices
  • Bleacher Seat Bards
  • Blood Pressure Poetics
  • Blue Hour Voices
  • Boardwalk Bards

B, continued

  • Bodega Ballads
  • Body Language Bards
  • Bold Type Voices
  • Bookstore Back Room Slam
  • Border Town Bards
  • Borderless Tongues
  • Borrowed Microphone
  • Borrowed Seconds
  • Borrowed Time Collective
  • Bout Sheet Bandits
  • Bout Time
  • Bout Two Stage Three
  • Bout Winners Circle
  • Braces and Bars
  • Bracket Night Bards
  • Braided Voices
  • Braver Than Yesterday
  • Break the Quiet
  • Breath on Glass
  • Breathe Then Begin
  • Breathwork Brigade
  • Brick Wall Poetry Series
  • Bridge and Tunnel Voices
  • Bring a Poem Night
  • Bulldog Bards
  • Burn the Script
  • Bus Line Bards

C: 57 names

  • Cable and Cadence
  • Cadence Cartel
  • Caesura Salad
  • Cafeteria Cadence
  • Call and Response Company
  • Campus Green Slam Society
  • Can I Start Over
  • Canal Street Cadence
  • Candle Smoke Verses
  • Candlelight Cadence
  • Canon in Three Voices
  • Capital City Slam
  • Center Stage Syndicate
  • Certified Loud
  • Chalk Dust Cadence
  • Chalkboard Lineup
  • Champions of the Bar Stool
  • Chatterbox Collective
  • Check One Two Crew
  • Chest Voice
  • Chorus of Strangers
  • Chronically Expressive
  • Circle of Open Hands
  • City Limits Spoken
  • Clap When It Lands
  • Clapback Chorus
  • Class Clown Turned Poet
  • Class of Now

C, continued

  • Clean Sweep Syndicate
  • Clock Starts When You Speak
  • Clocked Out Loud
  • Cloud Cover Cadence
  • Coach Said Louder
  • Coffeehouse Confessional
  • Colectivo Palabra Viva
  • Come On Now
  • Common Breath Cooperative
  • Community Mic Project
  • Consonance Conscience
  • Corner Booth Poetry
  • Corner of Fifth and Feeling
  • Corner Stage Committee
  • Cotton Mill Cadence
  • Countdown to Quiet
  • County Line Lyricists
  • Couplet Therapy
  • Courage Out Loud
  • Courthouse Steps Poets
  • Creative Writing Wing
  • Cross Outs and Comebacks
  • Cross Street Slam Team
  • Crosstown Poetics
  • Crowd Says Go In
  • Crowd Work Poets
  • Cul-de-sac Cadence
  • Curtain Optional
  • Cut It at Three

D: 25 names

  • Dandelion Breath
  • Dared to Sign Up
  • Decimal Point Drama
  • Deep Breath Club
  • Deep From the Belly
  • Deeply Felt Briefly Stated
  • Delta Breath
  • Desert Mouth Collective
  • Diaphragm Department
  • Diction Addiction
  • Did You Hear That Line
  • Dim the Room
  • Dining Hall Declaimers
  • Dockside Verses
  • Dog-Eared Notebook Crew
  • Doors at Eight Poems at Nine
  • Dorm Room Recitals
  • Double Voiced
  • Downtown Diction
  • Dramatic Pause Enthusiasts
  • Driftwood Verses
  • Drop the High and Low
  • Duct Tape Setlist
  • Duet for Loud People
  • Dusk Till Done

E: 23 names

  • Eagles Spoken Word Team
  • Ears Wide Open
  • Eastside Spoken
  • Echo and Answer
  • Echo in the Rafters
  • Edge of the Stage
  • Elbows and Emphasis
  • Elegy Energy
  • Elm Street Elegies
  • Ember to Inferno
  • Ember Tongue Collective
  • Emotionally Available on Thursdays
  • Encore Evenings
  • Encouragement Committee
  • English Wing Slam Club
  • Enjambment Session
  • Ensemble of Odd Numbers
  • Epistrophe Club
  • Evening Primrose Poetics
  • Every Body Speaks
  • Every Other Line
  • Every Second Spoken
  • Extra Dramatic Reading

F: 43 names

  • Falcon Verse Squad
  • Featherweight Words
  • Featured Poet Fridays
  • Feelings With a Rhythm Section
  • Feet on the Bleachers
  • Felt That in My Chest
  • Figurative Speakers
  • Final Stage Fever
  • Finals Week Fury
  • Finger Snap Congregation
  • Fingerprints on the Poem
  • Finish Each Other's Stanzas
  • Finish on the Beat
  • Fire Escape Verses
  • Fire in the Throat
  • First Friday Open Mic
  • First Light Voices
  • First Period Voice
  • First Poem Club
  • First Round Jitters
  • First Row Spit Zone

F, continued

  • First Snap Earned
  • First Time on the Mic
  • Fist in the Air Poetics
  • Five Deep
  • Five Dollar Cover Five Minute Set
  • Five Random Judges
  • Flashcard Stanzas
  • Fluent in Feelings
  • Foothills Word Works
  • For Better or Verse
  • Four on the Floor Poets
  • Four Poets One Coach
  • Free Speech Fellowship
  • Fresh Ink Youth Poets
  • Freshman Fifteen Lines
  • Friday Night Lines
  • From Notebook to Nerve
  • Front Stoop Slam
  • Full Moon Open Mic
  • Furnace Voices
  • Fury and Grace
  • Future Laureates

G: 15 names

  • Game Face Poets
  • Garden of Tongues
  • Gentle Thunderheads
  • Gesticulation Station
  • Give It Up
  • Going First Anyway
  • Good Listeners Guild
  • Grace Note Ten
  • Grand Slam Standing
  • Graphite and Grit
  • Green Room Griots
  • Griot House Collective
  • Group Piece Machine
  • Gulf Coast Griots
  • Gymnasium Echo

H: 32 names

  • Half a Point Over
  • Half Minute Heroes
  • Half the Poem Each
  • Half Whispered
  • Hallway Pass Poets
  • Hammer and Hymn
  • Hand on Heart Voices
  • Hand on the Stand
  • Hand Signal From the Back
  • Hands in the Air Verse
  • Hands Raised Collective
  • Harbor District Poets
  • Head to Head Verse
  • Heart on Sleeve Company
  • Heartbeat and Hush
  • Heartbeat Tempo
  • Hearth Speech Circle
  • High Plains Spoken
  • Higher Scores Please
  • Hilltop Spoken Word
  • Hold On Let Me Find It
  • Hold Your Applause
  • Hollow Reed Voices
  • Homeroom Slam Team
  • Honey in the Throat
  • Honor Roll Call
  • Hornet Stanzas
  • Hot Mic Society
  • House Blend Poetry Night
  • House Lights Down
  • Hum and Hollow
  • Hush Then Roar

I: 14 names

  • I Had Something for This
  • I Wrote This on the Bus
  • Iamb What Iamb
  • Ignite the Room
  • Imagery Nation
  • In Unison Almost
  • Index Card Insurgents
  • Indie Finals Bound
  • Ink and Breath
  • Ink Stained Lungs
  • Inside Voices Not Included
  • Iron Range Rhymers
  • It Gets Deep
  • It Sounded Better in the Shower

J: 9 names

  • Jawbone Jubilee
  • Judge Number Four
  • Judge Us Gently
  • Judges From the Crowd
  • Junior Varsity Verse
  • Juniors of the Stage
  • Just a Little Poem
  • Just Signed Up
  • Just Under Three

K: 5 names

  • Kindred Stanzas
  • Kinship of the Breath
  • Kitchen Table Poets Collective
  • Knight Shift Poetry Club
  • Knuckle Crack Before the Poem

L: 54 names

  • Lakefront Loud
  • Lamp Lit Readings
  • Lantern Glow Lyrics
  • Lantern Mouth Collective
  • Lap Timer Lyrics
  • Last Call for Poems
  • Last Poet in the Draw
  • Last Stop Lyricists
  • Last Word Standing
  • Late Set Poetry Series
  • Late Slip Lyricists
  • Late to the Last Line
  • Laundromat Laureates
  • Lavender and Lung
  • Lean In Listen Close
  • Learner's Permit Poets
  • Learning to Be Loud
  • Lecture Hall Loud Mouths
  • Left Voice Right Voice
  • Legal Pad Lyricists
  • Let Me Set This Up First
  • Letterman Jacket Lyrics
  • Library Voices Too Loud
  • Lifted Voices Guild
  • Lightning in the Larynx
  • Lightning Round Lyricists
  • Lights Up Mouths Open

L, continued

  • Line Break Crew
  • Linen and Lyric
  • Lineup at the Door
  • Linked Arms Poetry
  • Lion Lyricists
  • Lip to the Grille
  • List Poem Legion
  • Listen Up Assembly
  • Listening Hour
  • Listening Party
  • Lit Fuse Poets
  • Litany League
  • Literal Lyrical
  • Locker Bay Laureates
  • Lone Bulb Theory
  • Loose Leaf Cooperative
  • Loose Paper Parade
  • Loud Hearts Cooperative
  • Loud Mouths Anonymous
  • Loud on Purpose
  • Loud Room Quiet Poem
  • Low Ceiling High Volume
  • Low Tide Lyrics
  • Lowcountry Loud
  • Lowest Score Lovers
  • Lullaby for the Loud
  • Lungs and Ledger

M: 37 names

  • Main Street Monologues
  • Many Tongues Collective
  • Maple Avenue Mouths
  • Margin Notes Out Loud
  • Market Square Slam
  • Megaphone Hearts
  • Metaphorically Speaking
  • Meter Readers
  • Mic Cord Lasso
  • Mic Fever
  • Mic Stand Lowered
  • Mic Stand Militia
  • Middle School Mic Masters
  • Midnight Roll Call
  • Midterm Metaphors
  • Midtown Mouthpieces
  • Milk Crate Stage Society
  • Mill Street Slam
  • Minus Point Five Crew
  • Minute by Minute
  • Minute Three Miracle
  • Mist and Meter
  • Mmm From the Back
  • Moonlit Mouths
  • Morning Fog Recital
  • Mostly Metaphor
  • Moth Wing Verses
  • Mother Tongue Assembly
  • Motif Operandi
  • Motor Mouth Mavens
  • Mountain Echo Slam
  • Mouth Full of Thunder
  • Mouth Shape Memory
  • Mouthpiece Cooperative
  • Mumble Then Rumble
  • Mustang Mouthpieces
  • My Therapist Said Write It Down

N: 31 names

  • Name in the Bucket
  • Named and Unafraid
  • Napkin Verses
  • Nationals or Bust
  • Neighborhood Watch Your Mouth
  • Neighbors in Verse
  • Never Quiet Again
  • Never Read This Out Loud Before
  • New Kid New Poem
  • New Poem Night
  • New Voice Lab
  • Newcomers Corner
  • Night Bus Narrators
  • Night Class Poets
  • Night Shift Open Mic
  • Nightingale Hour
  • Nine Point Seven
  • Nine Volt Verses
  • Ninety Second Poems
  • No Mic Needed
  • No More Hush
  • No Page in Hand
  • No Podium No Problem
  • No Props No Costumes No Problem
  • No Whisper Left
  • North Shore Narrators
  • Northend Word Crew
  • Not a Rap Battle
  • Not My Final Draft
  • Notebook Kids
  • Notes App Poets

O: 24 names

  • Ode Rage
  • Off Book and Unafraid
  • Off the Meter
  • Off the Page
  • Office Hours Open Mic
  • Okay One More Poem
  • Old Town Orators
  • One Breath Left
  • One Eighty Seconds
  • One Mic Many Mouths
  • One Minute Warning
  • One More Time for the Back
  • One Poem Limit
  • One Starts All Finish
  • One Working Speaker
  • Onomatopoeia Party
  • Open Flame Poets
  • Open Floor Thursdays
  • Open Mic and Open Hearts
  • Open Voice Collective
  • Over Time Under Pressure
  • Overlapping Voices
  • Overpass Orators
  • Oxymoron Morning

P: 43 names

  • Pace Yourself Poets
  • Page to Stage Players
  • Pair of Lungs
  • Palabras al Aire
  • Panther Poetry Slam
  • Paper Lantern Poets
  • Paper to Pavement
  • Paper Trembling
  • Parallel Structure
  • Parking Lot Prophets
  • Pass the Hat Poetry
  • Passing the Mic Project
  • Pause for Effect
  • Pause for Snaps
  • Pearl of a Line
  • Pen Cap Chewers
  • People's Poem Cooperative
  • Pep Rally Poets
  • Perfect Ten Society
  • Persona Poem Posse
  • Petal and Pulse

P, continued

  • Pin Drop Poets
  • Plain Speech Alliance
  • Planted Feet
  • Plosive Behavior
  • Poem for Four Mouths
  • Poem Number One
  • Poems Before Curfew
  • Poems on Tap
  • Poetas del Barrio
  • Poetry Club Not Book Club
  • Poets in Common
  • Poets Who Lunch
  • Points Are Not the Point
  • Pop Quiz Poetics
  • Porch Light Open Mic
  • Port City Poets
  • Posture and Poem
  • Prairie Voice Project
  • Professional Feelers
  • Project to the Exit Sign
  • Prosody and Con
  • Pulse and Protest

Q: 5 names

  • Quad Side Spoken Word
  • Qualifier Night
  • Quarter Past Verse
  • Quatrain Wreck
  • Quiet Like Snowfall

R: 33 names

  • Raíces y Ritmo
  • Rail Yard Rhymers
  • Rain on the Windowpane
  • Raise the Roof Raise the Question
  • Raised Voice Brigade
  • Rattle the Windows
  • Raven Recital Club
  • Reading Off Our Phones
  • Receipt Paper Poems
  • Refrain From Silence
  • Regional Hopefuls
  • Rent Party Poems
  • Repeat After Me
  • Repetition Repetition
  • Rewind That Line
  • Rhyme Without Warning
  • Rhythm and Bruise
  • Ribcage Recital
  • Riot of Words
  • River Bend Rhapsodes
  • Riverside Recital
  • Roar Like You Mean It
  • Roar of the Folding Chairs
  • Rooftop Recitals
  • Room 204 Rhymers
  • Rooted Voices Collective
  • Rough Draft Night
  • Round Robin Rhymers
  • Round Table Open Mic
  • Round Three Redemption
  • Row Three Went Wild
  • Rowdy and Reverent
  • Running Long

S: 124 names

  • Said What We Said
  • Salt and Starlight
  • Saturday Night Stanzas
  • Say It Back Louder
  • Say It Plain
  • Say That Again
  • School Colors Spoken
  • Scorched Scorecards
  • Scoreboard Agnostics
  • Scratch That Say This
  • Scream Into a Poem
  • Scribble to Shout
  • Seaglass Syllables
  • Second Hand Sweep
  • Second Round Surge
  • Second Speaker Blown
  • Second Stanza Wind
  • Second Sunday Spoken Word
  • Seconds Count
  • Semester of Sound
  • Semifinal Feelings
  • Send Us to Finals
  • Senior Year Stanzas
  • Seven Mouths Wide
  • Seventh Avenue Stanzas
  • Seventh Period Slam
  • Sextet of Syllables
  • Shaking Knees Society
  • Shaky Hands Steady Mic
  • Shared Mic Collective
  • Short Poem Long Night

S, continued

  • Shoulder to Shoulder Poets
  • Shout It Back
  • Shout the Dark Away
  • Show Some Love
  • Simile Riot
  • Simile When You Say That
  • Sister Stanza Circle
  • Six Throats One Truth
  • Sixteen and Speaking
  • Sixth Grade Slam Squad
  • Sixty Seconds to Open
  • Slam Dunk Stanzas
  • Slam Season
  • Slam Team Supreme
  • Slot Number Seven
  • Slow River Speech
  • Small But Spoken
  • Small Hours Poets
  • Small Voice Big Room
  • Smoke Signal Stanzas
  • Smudged Ink Society
  • Snap Crackle Stanza
  • Snap Decision Society
  • Snap Happy
  • Snapping Distance
  • Snaps for Days
  • Snaps Not Claps
  • Snowmelt Speech
  • So This Next Piece
  • Soft Light Loud Mouths
  • Soft Snaps Hard Truths

S, continued

  • Soft Thunder
  • Solo Together
  • Somebody Felt That
  • Somebody Pass the Tissues
  • Somebody Said Preach
  • Sophomore Slam
  • Southside Syllables
  • Spark and Tinder
  • Sparrow Song Circle
  • Speak Easy Circle
  • Speak It Into Being
  • Speak Night
  • Speak On It
  • Speak or Be Spoken For
  • Speed Round Sonnets
  • Spine and Syllable
  • Spiral Bound Voices
  • Spirit Week Speakers
  • Spit and Polish Guild
  • Split the Stage
  • Spoken After Supper
  • Spoken Word Elective
  • Spoken Word Workers
  • Spotlight Sermon
  • Sprout and Shout
  • Stacked Voices
  • Stage Fright Survivors
  • Stage Is Open
  • Stage Left Poets
  • Stage Time Sundays
  • Staggered Entrance

S, continued

  • Stand and Deliver the Verse
  • Standing Mic Only
  • Standing Room Only Souls
  • Standing Tall Speaking True
  • Stanza Delivery
  • Starling Speech
  • Static and Stanza
  • Steel in the Syllables
  • Steel Town Stanzas
  • Step to the Stand
  • Sticky Note Sonatas
  • Still Finding the Words
  • Still Not a Song
  • Still on the Clock
  • Stillwater Speakers
  • Stomp the Floorboards
  • Stoop Session Poets
  • Stopwatch Saints
  • Strategy Huddle
  • Streetlight Stanzas
  • Stressed Syllables
  • Student Union Stanzas
  • Study Hall Stanzas
  • Subway Car Sermons
  • Sudden Death Haiku
  • Sunday Stoop Collective
  • Swap the Verse
  • Sweat on the Page
  • Syllable Service
  • Syllabus Week Slam
  • Symbol Crash

T: 271 names

  • Talk With Our Hands
  • Talkative by Trade
  • Tangled Cable Club
  • Tap Tap Is This On
  • Tea and Testimony
  • Team of Four Fury
  • Team Piece Theory
  • Teeth and Testimony
  • Tell It Like It Hurts
  • Ten Point Oh
  • Ten Second Grace
  • Tender Riot Collective
  • Tens Across the Board
  • Tercet Circuit
  • Testify
  • The Alternates Bench
  • The Amen Corner Poets
  • The Annotated Mouths
  • The Annotations
  • The Back Room Readings
  • The Back Row Can Hear Us
  • The Basement Sessions
  • The Beginners Bracket
  • The Block Party Poets
  • The Bold Tongues
  • The Boom Arm
  • The Bout Managers
  • The Brave Beginners
  • The Brave Mouths
  • The Breath Marks
  • The Bright Burn
  • The Broken Lines
  • The Calibration Poem
  • The Choral Piece
  • The Clenched Fists Unclenched
  • The Clip Lights
  • The Clock Watchers Union
  • The Collective Exhale

T, continued

  • The Community Hour
  • The Counterpoint Crew
  • The Cross Talk
  • The Crowd of Five
  • The Crumpled Drafts
  • The Cut Line
  • The Deep Sigh Society
  • The Detention Poems
  • The Double Entendres
  • The Dropped Lines
  • The Echo Chorus
  • The Egg Timers
  • The Elder and Youth Exchange
  • The End Stops
  • The Evening Edition
  • The Extended Metaphors
  • The Eye Contact Club
  • The Feature and the Open
  • The Feature Slot
  • The First Drafters
  • The Flamethrowers of Feeling
  • The Folded Papers
  • The Front Row Nodders
  • The Gain Knobs
  • The Gathering Voice
  • The Gentle Riot
  • The Grace Period
  • The Growing Voices
  • The Hall Monitors of Rhyme
  • The Hand Gesture Committee
  • The Hat Draw
  • The Head Nod Society
  • The Highlighted Lines
  • The Hollerbacks
  • The Homework Can Wait Poets
  • The Hourglass Mouths
  • The Hum After
  • The Hush Garden
  • The Inhale

T, continued

  • The Inked Palms
  • The Internal Rhymes
  • The Kind Words
  • The Last Line Lands
  • The Last Minute Edits
  • The Last Ten Seconds
  • The Late List
  • The Layered Lines
  • The Lilac Hour
  • The List Opens at Seven
  • The Listening Room Project
  • The Live Wires
  • The Loft Sessions
  • The Long Exhale
  • The Long Pause
  • The Long Table Poets
  • The Long Three Minutes
  • The Loud Table
  • The Loud Truth
  • The Low Score Dropped
  • The Lunch Period Poets
  • The Metaphor Mechanics
  • The Mic Droplets
  • The Mic Is Yours
  • The Midweek Mic
  • The Mini Mics
  • The Mmhm Choir
  • The Monday Mumble
  • The Monitor Wedge
  • The Monologuers
  • The Monthly Slam
  • The Murmuration
  • The New Notebooks
  • The Next Generation Slam
  • The Nodding Heads
  • The Novice Round
  • The Off-Book Poets
  • The Ooh Section
  • The Open Channel

T, continued

  • The Open Mic Rookies
  • The Open Notebook Club
  • The Oral Tradition Workshop
  • The Overthinkers Out Loud
  • The Overtime Poets
  • The Passing Lines
  • The Plainspoken
  • The Plural Voice
  • The Pocket Notebooks
  • The Podium Thieves
  • The Poet Voice
  • The Porch Sermon Society
  • The Prelims
  • The Protest Poems
  • The Quarterly Slam
  • The Quartet of Quiet
  • The Quiet Current
  • The Quiet Ones Out Loud
  • The Quiet Storm Poets
  • The Rambling Preface
  • The Rattled Cages
  • The Recital Union
  • The Recited
  • The Reckoning Poets
  • The Refrainers
  • The Rehearsed Breath
  • The Remembering Circle
  • The Respect the Mic Rule
  • The Reverb Tails
  • The Riser Rats
  • The Rookie Round
  • The Room Leaned In
  • The Rotation Regulars
  • The Run-On Sentences
  • The Run-Through
  • The Running Clock
  • The Score Creep
  • The Score Keepers

T, continued

  • The Scorecards
  • The Second Drafts
  • The Sighing Room
  • The Sign-Up Sheet
  • The Signup Starts Now
  • The Silence Before Applause
  • The Slam Master's Apprentice
  • The Snap Count
  • The Snap Section
  • The Soapbox Cooperative
  • The Soft Spoken
  • The Softest Thunder
  • The Sound Checkers
  • The Speaking Tree
  • The Spill Light
  • The Spoken Few
  • The Stage Whisperers
  • The Standing Ovation Fund
  • The Standing Slot
  • The Starter Stanzas
  • The Stool and the Stand
  • The Stopwatch Skeptics
  • The Storytellers Local
  • The Sum of Our Scores
  • The Sunday Sermonettes
  • The Syllable Cooperative
  • The Tag Team Stanzas
  • The Tardy Stanzas
  • The Teaching Assistants of Verse
  • The Ten Spot Open Mic
  • The Tender Hour
  • The Tender Syllables
  • The Tenth of a Point
  • The Testimony Project
  • The Third Thursday Slam
  • The Three Minute Mile
  • The Thursday Circle
  • The Tiebreakers
  • The Time Hogs

T, continued

  • The Tone Shifters
  • The Traveling Team
  • The Try It Once Club
  • The Turn of Phrase
  • The Undergrad Utterance
  • The Underheard
  • The Underlined
  • The Understudy Collective
  • The Unison Project
  • The Unquiet
  • The Unrhymed
  • The Unsilenced
  • The Unstressed Syllables
  • The Up and Speaking
  • The Uprising Stanzas
  • The Utterance Assembly
  • The Volta Face
  • The Voltas
  • The Warm Room
  • The Warm-Up Poets
  • The Warm-Up Round
  • The Weeknight Word
  • The Whisper to Shout Pipeline
  • The Whiteboard Tally
  • The Wildfire Syndicate
  • The Witness Section
  • The Word Guild
  • The Working Mouths
  • Theater Kids With Notebooks
  • Third Floor Stairwell Poets
  • Third Ward Voices
  • Thirty Seconds of Silence
  • This One Is New So Be Nice
  • This Poem Has No Title
  • Thread and Murmur
  • Three and Change
  • Three Minute Eternity
  • Three Minute Fury
  • Three Minute Thunder

T, continued

  • Three Minutes Flat
  • Three Minutes of Truth
  • Three Part Harmony No Music
  • Three Rounds Deep
  • Three Ten and Counting
  • Thumb to Finger Snap
  • Thunder in the Lungs
  • Tick Tock Testimony
  • Tide Pool Poets
  • Tidewater Tongues
  • Time Penalty
  • Time's Up Speak Up
  • Timed and Dangerous
  • Timer in the Front Row
  • Tiny Mighty Voices
  • Titan Tongues
  • Tomorrow's Tongues
  • Tongue Tied No More
  • Tongues of Flame
  • Too Close to the Mic
  • Too Many Metaphors
  • Trading Lines
  • Trembling Hands Club
  • Trochee Dokey
  • Trolley Stop Verses
  • Trust Me It Rhymes Later
  • Truth at Full Volume
  • Truth Be Told Poets
  • Truth Tellers Union
  • Tuesday Night Testimony
  • Twilight Tongues
  • Twin Bridges Verse
  • Two Fifty Nine
  • Two Mics Too Many
  • Two Poem Tuesday
  • Two Rivers Poetry Crew
  • Two Snaps and a Stomp
  • Two Voices One Poem
  • Typewriter to Throat

U: 15 names

  • Unapologetic Ink
  • Uncaged Syllables
  • Under Eighteen Over It
  • Under the Clock
  • Under the Par Can
  • Underdog Rotation
  • Unfiltered Throats
  • Unfinished Poem Club
  • Unpaid Orators
  • Unplugged and Unbothered
  • Unreasonably Earnest
  • Unscripted Evenings
  • Up Next Youth Poets
  • Up to the Mic
  • Uptown Utterance

V: 20 names

  • Valley Floor Voices
  • Varsity Voices
  • Velvet Vowels
  • Verbs With Attitude
  • Verse Case Scenario
  • Verse Responders
  • Verse Things First
  • Verses and Vinyl
  • Verses the World
  • Viking Verse Club
  • Vocal Cord Chorus
  • Voces Unidas Poetry Circle
  • Voice Box Cooperative
  • Voice Cracking and Proud
  • Voice Like a Match
  • Voice Memo Verses
  • Voice of the Unheard
  • Voices in Training
  • Voices Up Fists Down
  • Volume as Resistance

W: 34 names

  • Wait for the Last Line
  • Walk Up Music
  • War Drum Heart
  • Watch the Timer Wave
  • Water Tower Wordsmiths
  • Water Under the Words
  • We Came to Slam
  • We Do Our Own Stunts Verbally
  • We Have Feelings and a Deadline
  • We Memorized Most of It
  • We Peaked at Prelims
  • Wednesday Word Night
  • Westbank Wordsmiths
  • Whole Room Holding Breath
  • Whole Room Said Yes
  • Wild Card Bout
  • Wildcat Word Warriors
  • Wildflower Witness
  • Willow Voice Circle
  • Wind Chime Stanzas
  • Wings and Whispers
  • Winning by a Tenth
  • Wireless and Fearless
  • Witness and Word
  • Witness Circle
  • Wobbly First Line
  • Word of Mouth Workshop
  • Word Play Wednesdays
  • Words After Dark
  • Words Words Words
  • Wrap It Up Light
  • Wren and Refrain
  • Written on My Phone
  • Written Then Spoken

Y: 6 names

  • Yearbook Quote Rejects
  • Yelling But Make It Art
  • Young Ink
  • Young Voices Rising
  • Youth Slam League
  • Youth Voice Workshop

Z: 1 name

  • Zero Deductions