We had a blast during our third year participating in the MA LTAB Youth Slam! Slam Team Members include: Aysha Afzal, Sidra Afzal, Sasha Festi, Julianna Grossman, Jessie Goober, Laura Frustaci, Check out our poems below:

Sidra Afzal: One Body, Three Struggles

Aysha Afzal: Uneccessary Background

Julianna Grossman: Puzzling

Laura Frustaci: The Only Way to Stay Safe

Group Poem: = American Must Reckon

Our second year at LTAB Rocked!! Check out our poems:

Gabby Goulette

Lorraine Kanyike: Sunbeam Queen

Julianna Grossman

Timmy Sullivan

Aysha Afzal: Sticker Book

Group Poem: Jhymon Moodie, Julianna Grossman, Aysha Afzal, Gabby Goulette

The BHS slam team’s inaugural year was a pretty amazing whirlwind. After MassLEAP representative Alex Charalambides came to BHS to run a slam workshop in March, we created a team and two months later we were performing at Louder Than a Bomb. Here are the student poems that brought BHS to the LTAB semifinals their first year in the slam:

Lorraine Kanyike “A History of Melanin”

Cat Hoyt “To the Seniors Who Graduate in Two Months”

Aysha Afzal “A Letter to Dannon Light and Fit Yogurt”

TJ Horgan “The Friend Zone”

Tyler Gaffey “Nicotine”

Anastasia Kranz “Bird by Bird”

Group Poem “Stand”