Student Poets Compete for “Slam Master” Title
December 8, 2022
Since 2016, creative writing students at TA have had the unique opportunity to work with Vermont’s reigning poetry slam champion, author, poet, and performer Geof Hewitt. This year, Hewitt joined Mr. Mann’s Creative Writing and Emily Silver’s Composition for College and Career courses as an artist-in-residence. Over the course of the week with Hewitt, Mann and Silver’s students engaged in a variety of poetic exercises and excursions. They learned about the art and science of poetry and performance. The Poet-in-Residence unit wrapped up with 19 student and faculty poets sharing their work in the MJR Theater in a poetry slam format. The...