Spittin that heat!!! Freshhh heat!!; Sharing my thoughts and concepts with the world via poetry; Being my self; Slammin'; Brave New Voices;National Youth Spoken Word Coalition
Heroes
The members of WordCrew; the teen writing council that is made up of young poets from various Baton Rouge high schools. This is an intensive writing and leadership program. It's members participate in accelerated weekly writing workshops and sit on one of four leadership committees (outreach, publication, events, and community service).
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The Big Buddy Program's WordPlay Teen Writing Project engages teens from diverse communities in spoken word poetry and self-expression as away to harness the power of young people's voices and stories. WordPlay builds this literary community for Baton Rouge teens through writing workshops, open-mics, poetry slams, publications, and educator resources. WordPlay's purpose is to create dynamic, safe forums for Baton Rouge teens to develop literacy and life skills.
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Who I'd like to meet: You at the 2008 ALL CITY Teen Poetry Slam Festival April 3rd-May 3rd @ various locations.
Every Thursday in April the first series of preliminary slam bouts will be held at the BREC Administrative Building, 6201 Florida Blvd from 6:30pm-8:30pm...That's April 3rd, 10th, 17th, and 24th
Friday May 2nd the second series of preliminary slam bouts will be held at the Belfair Teen Center, 4390 Fairfields Ave. from 10am-12pm & 7pm-9pm AND at the BREC Administrative Building, 6201 Florida Blvd from 10am-12pm & 7pm-9pm
Saturday May 3rd the ALL CITY open mic/block party will be held on the Fest For All fair grounds from 3:30pm-6pm and FINALS will be held from 7pm-9pm!!!
The teams competing in this year's festival are:
EBR Lab Academy
Broadmoor High
Istrouma High
Belaire High
Southeast Middle
Robert E. Lee High
McKinley High
Scotlandville Magnet
Broadmoor Middle
Glen Oaks High
City at Peace
Capitol Middle
Christian Life Academy
LSU Lab School
Park Forest Middle
and here's why....
i am so upset that its over. the time went too fast. i'm gonna miss all of ya'll so much but not too much cuz i'm gonna b back whenever i can. ya'll r gonna be tired of seeing me lol. love ya'll thanks for everything.
♥
Shelley
I just wanted to let you know I have reached 2000 friends ....so let this be a thank you for being one of them and doing what all good friends do by NOT caring.
anyway, Ive been really into slam poetry and have been performing around NYC at such events.
Heres a sample of something i might do at a slam:
" i then go into this coffeehouse and strike up a conversation
with this other writer about why men always have to do the hunting for women.
he takes out this half empty bottle and this half empty cup and says
"the bottle is the man and the cup is the woman
and the liquid inside is their hearts.
now their hearts are not gonna be complete until they find each other"
and then he asks me how i would go about doing that.
so i told him that i would pour the bottle into the cup.
he says "why not the other way around?"
and i reply "less chance of a spill" and he says "exactly......
see when a woman pours her heart into a man it just gets broken
and most of it spills on the floor, but when a man pours his heart
into the woman, the woman accepts ALL of him."
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Do you feel as your all alone even though everyones around
Do you feel lost and feel you can't be found
Do you feel like you have no reason to live
Do you feel you've gave all that you can give
Do you feel like you can't look at yourself
Do you always wish to be someone else
I know the feeling and the pain won't go away
I look at people and I see hate in their eyes
Looking at me like God made a mistake and all I can do is cry
All my family and friends tell me different than what I think is true
I feel as if I'm nothing I don't know what to do
I thought sex would make it better make me feel good but it made me feel worse
Now I'm Stuck with regret the worst kind of curse
It made me feel useless, and feel like a hoe
I thought it would help me but I just let myself go
I never bothered to tell n e one I hade everything to hide
Because I know no one is on my side
I've tried and tried but I can't change not even a little bit
I'm tired of feeling this way but I just can't help it....
Today I've labored on the name of ALL CITY/ The outlook is pretty, unworthy of any pity/ Every team is gonna gleam like bling with high beams/ And top 6 poets fulfillin' California dreams/
