Rap it up.Whether you pen your poetry or prefer to let it just roll off your tongue (or even if you couldn't rhyme your way out of a paper bag), you'll no doubt be completely inspired by Poetic License poetic license n. The liberty taken by an artist or a writer in deviating from conventional form or fact to achieve a desired effect. Noun 1. , a special airing April 1 at 11 p.m on PBS PBS in full Public Broadcasting Service Private, nonprofit U.S. corporation of public television stations. PBS provides its member stations, which are supported by public funds and private contributions rather than by commercials, with educational, cultural, . Beg your parents to let you stay up (or set your VCR VCR: see videocassette recorder. VCR in full videocassette recorder Electromechanical device that records, stores on a videotape cassette, and plays back on a TV set recorded images and sound. ) and check out this documentary on teen poetry slams. What's a slam? Imagine an open-mike night for poets. Most of the kids participate "freestyle"-- shooting off words rapid-fire from the tops of their heads. A few do readings from their own original works. What they all have in common is a passion for spreading the word about whatever moves them--the environment, poverty, love, violence, discrimination. And they put it so darn eloquently: "What God was it that slid us on to this planet as slick as we are with lightning tongues and gave us the task of poets?" That's Tim Arevalo, winner, 1998 San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden Teen Poetry Slam. |
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