Rayvon Rollins is a poet in Gainesville and he’s getting ready for a poetry slam about cancer. “Holistically rebuilding a reality rotted and all it took was a look into myself to get well. Wow, I'm ...
This was the loud and unapologetic environment I stepped into at Get Lit’s Classic Slam, a poetry competition where more than 50 high schools participate annually. It was, as Tiffany Snow, Get Lit’s ...
One by one, poets shrug their way to the stage, pausing for a breath before diving in. Without fail, someone from the crowd offers the rallying cry: "Let's go, poet!" The room answers in its own ...