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YWP's First Poetry Slam!

Young Writers Project held a live and digital Poetry Slam at the Champlain Mill and streamed it live on youngwritersproject.org. Click here to see the recorded version.

Running the slam was Geof Hewitt, poetry slam artist and a curriculum/writing coordinator for Vermont DOE. He said at the end of the session to the gathering and later reiterated it to me privately that the quality of the poetry was higher than any slam he has ever given -- adult or otherwise. "Your biggest problem is that for those out there watching, this may have been intimidating."

The session showed us several things:

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Submitted by ggevalt on Wed, 05/13/2009 - 14:42

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Geoffrey Gevalt  founded and directs the Young Writers Project, a VT nonprofit working to build a generation of better writers. Lee McIsaac directs YWP's mentoring and publication programs.Kate Fallone is a longtime UVM mentor and YWP instructor. This blog highlights cool things students and teachers are doing, talks about activities at YWP and shows some of the impact of this project.   PLEASE COMMENT; otherwise we will think no one is reading. Thanks.

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