POETRY SLAMS
Reasserting Poetry's Oral Tradition
DVD
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Steeped in "an air of young people discovering how to talk about themselves and the rough world around them," two segments from PBS’s News Hour With Jim Lehrer explore the cultural phenomenon of "Poetry Slams." In the first segment, poets Ariana Waynes and Roger Bonair-Augard, the winners of a national competition, read from their powerful poems and explain what attracts them to this populist art form. The second segment looks at a multiethnic group of troubled, at-risk urban teenagers who are finding redemption in poetry. Grades 6–12. Color. 23 minutes. MacNeil/Lehrer. ©1999.
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| ISBN | 9780736593755 |
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