Social Justice through Spoken Word

This event is a community event. Performers can only be students who are in grades 6th - 12th.

All attendees & performers must register for this event via our website "sign-up button" located below. 

Performance Criteria

Students will be judged on the following areas:

Creativity

Visual presentation (attire, etc.)

Dramatic appropriateness

Voice and Emotion and Articulation

Overall performance

Students must select a poetry reading from the following poets:

• Langston Hughes
• Claude McKay
• James Weldon Johnson
• Zora Neal Hurston
• Jean Toomer
• Nella Larson
• Arna Bontemps
• Maya Angelou
• W.E.B. Du Bois
• Amiri Baraka (fka LeRoi Jones)
• Allen Ginsgerg
• Charles Olsen
• Gary Snyder
• Gwendolyn Brooks
• Ed Bullins
• Eldridge Ceaver
• Jayne Cortez
• Harold Cruz
• Mari Evans
• Lucille Clifton

For more information please contact: thearts@akaiotaalphaomega.org