Insideout Literary Arts Project

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“By immersing students in the joy and power of poetry and literary self- expression, insideout inspires them to think broadly, create bravely and share their voices with the wider world. Guided by professional writers and celebrated by publications and performances, youth learn that their stories and ideas matter and that their pens can launch them off the page into extraordinary lives.”

“Literary forms and techniques and multiple literary and arts genres from poetry and spoken word to essay writing, graphic novels, memoir, and playwriting. This work led to greater student engagement with writing, oral presentation, and creative self-expression. Ios award-winning afterschool program, citywide poets (cwp), engaged 115 high school students in intensive, rigorous craft, leadership, and performance opportunities including regional and national poetry competitions. As part of a new national initiative, detroits 2017 youth poet laureate, performed her work extensively locally as well as nationally. An expanded slam season included two preliminary bouts and a grand slam. This years winning slam team of five young writers represented detroit at the brave new voices international poetry festival in san francisco. Insideouts louder than a bomb: michigans youth poetry festival grew this year from a one-day event to four days of festival programming. The event brought together over 150 young poets representing high schools and community organizations from eight counties across the state to participate in artistic competitions and collaborative programming. The four-day festival included a variety of free public events including a middle school showcase, an mc olympics competition, a high school open mic, and several head-to-head poetry slam bouts. The grand slam featured teams from detroit, ann arbor, fraser, grand rapids, and kalamazoo. Ios young writers conference brought 160 students and classroom teachers from middle and high schools for a day of writing workshops led by some of the areas most prominent writers. This years keynote, tyehimba jess, grew up in detroit and received the 2017 pulitzer prize in poetry for his most recent collection, olio.”