Class Description
For the third year in a row, GrubStreet is forming it's own high school slam poetry team to compete in this year's Louder Than A Bomb slam poetry competition.
Register for a spot to audition for the team today! We're looking for 6 students to create a slam team. Students will perform their poems to a group of judges and their fellow slam participants. Each student will need 3 poems (memorization is ideal, but not required) to compete, and will have no more than 3 minutes to perform each poem (The shorter, the better, as your score will be penalized for going over the time limit). We will have a panel of slam poetry judges that will give scores after each performance. If you have any questions, please email [email protected].
For more about Louder Than A Bomb, check out the trailer for a recent documentary that chronicles four teams as they compete in the first ever Louder Than A Bomb slam poetry competition.
Click here to register.
YOU MUST BE IN HIGH SCHOOL TO REGISTER-- NO EXCEPTIONS.
Thanks to the excellent literary citizenship of our donors, scholarships are available for all GrubStreet classes. To apply, click the gray "APPLY FOR SCHOLARSHIP" button. In order to be considered for a scholarship, you must complete your application at least one week before the start date of a class. Please await our scholarship committee's decision before registering for the class. We cannot hold spots in classes, so the sooner you apply, the better. Scholarships cannot be applied retroactively.
For more detailed information about GrubStreet scholarships, including how to contribute to scholarship funds for other students, click here.
This class will take place using Zoom videoconferencing. After registering, a yellow Resources tab will appear in this section containing a link to join class. Please note that you will need to be logged into view the Resources tab.
Zoom Participation:
In our experience, the intimate nature of a writing workshop benefits from on-camera participation. Students are of course welcome to turn their camera off whenever they need to, but it is a community norm for cameras to be on most of the time. You can learn more about using Zoom here.
Zoom Accessibility:
You can enable closed captioning at any time during the meeting by clicking the CC button at the bottom of the screen. If you'd like to access the transcript after class, please make sure to let your instructor ahead of time that you'd like a copy.