Summit High School has a bi-annual poetry slam that EXPRESSES the hearts and minds of their talented youth. The Conference is proud to support Summit High School in putting voices into action and honesty into writing.
Take a listen to this verse montage of Poetry in Action:
Special thanks to the Wyoming Arts Council and pARTners for providing funding for this program. And artists and poets Nicole Burdick, Soul Aju, Mike Bressler, and Mark Dunstan and Owen Ashley of AFarm for sharing their talents and creative energies.
Summit students are posting works in the National Gallery of Writing and are actively using the form in the classroom to express ideas, explore their ideas, and little by little, as a tool to drive their larger curiosities and opinions. Here’s a sample from Chris Banks:
It’s so cold
The attitude your eyes portray
You look at me as if I am committing a crime at this very second
As if I am on the run from the police
If somehow one human is better than another
You think it’s you compared to me
Your clothes, car, and wallet only show a different lifestyle
Not an upper class super human
You may build corporations, but I build your houses
Without the millions of unrecognized workers you would be nowhere
So just remember one thing
I don’t take any of your possessions into consideration when I meet you
Just your attitude and character, nothing else matters
