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”
