Due to COVID-19 we were unable to hold our usual in-person Poetry SLAM event. Even though we couldn’t gather in person we wanted to still provide a safe space for our students to express themselves through poetry and have a spotlight shone on their amazing work.

In 2021 we held a virtual SLAM. All our teams worked together to write a poem which was then filmed by two local videographers. (A huge thank you to Devin Cathcart and Aaron Matti!). These videos were provided to community members who served as judges. Every team and individual received awards based on their scores.

We had 19 teams and 12 individuals write poems for this year’s SLAM.

We are proud of all the hard work our poet-athletes put into the Poetry SLAM over the Fall season. Take a look through our program PDF for all the poems and information about our amazing poet-athletes!

SLAM Program

Due to COVID-19 we were unable to hold our usual in-person Poetry SLAM event. Even though we couldn’t gather in person we wanted to still provide a safe space for our students to express themselves through poetry and have a spotlight shone on their amazing work.

In 2020 we held a virtual SLAM. All students who took part in our program were able to write an original poem and film themselves performing that poem. They were all then entered into the SLAM and scored by community member judges. All winners were given gift cards and highlighted in a special Poetry SLAM highlight video.

We had 57 students submit poems for this year’s SLAM. All submissions and the highlight video can be found on our Youtube page here.

We are proud of all the hard work our poet-athletes put into the Poetry SLAM over the Fall season. Take a look through our program PDF for all the poems and information about our amazing poet-athletes!

Poetry SLAM Program