What is it? A competition where teenagers are able to show case their writing abilities HEAD to HEAD in slam poerty. What's the name of the competition? "Brave New Voices", as I was sitting in my room flcking through channels while on the phone with one of my friends (who happens to do slam poetry), she told me to turn to HBO. What I came across was a team of teenage poets presenting their best poems in front of judges and their peers. Now one might ask what might this have to do with Education? Well to that person I say this, as an aspiring High School English Teacher, I know I will have to cover poetry at some point. Instead of presenting the same poems that schools go through every year, why not make this genre of poetry apart of lessons. Here is a link that displays one of the poems spoken at this years competition. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2A7wD5Rew8
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