Ever heard of Slam Poetry? It’s a performance driven competition with poetry. Poets go up and perform their poetry and get scored by 5 judges from 0-10. This is a growing community throughout New Mexico. One of the central hubs for it though can be found in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The youth team this year features one of your fellow students at ENMU, Amy Waltner. The team is composed of 6 individual poets whose names go as followed: Bianca Sanchez, Seth-Wilson Grey, Claire Wimborne, Sarah Smithson, Victoria Alexander and Amy Waltner. All these poets originated from the metro area of New Mexico and get to go to the International Poetry Competition, Brave New Voices, maybe you’ve seen it on HBO? It gets featured there or you can go onto youtube and find recordings of the poetry that happens at this competition if you’re not sure this is your thing. The team is fundraising to get to Philadelphia for Brave New Voices. The Coaches of this years team are all pervious Brave New Voice poets, they consist of Emily Bjustrom, Mercedez Holtry and Khalid Binsunni. Here’s a link to the book they are selling! Support your local Greyhound and help her get her team to Brave New Voices. 🙂
You can get your copy of the book from the following link 🙂
http://www.amazon.com/To-The-Last-Word-2014/dp/0692200428/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1399669423&sr=8-1&keywords=to+the+last+word+elephant
Top Row (The Team) Victoria, Bianca, Sarah, Amy, Claire, Seth-Wilson Bottom Row: (The Coaches) Mercedez, Emily, Khalid