Youth Poetry Slam Team Qualifier

Dodge Poetry in the Community is a cornerstone of the newly-expanded partnership between the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation and NJPAC. The program offers free poetry workshops and performance opportunities for Newark teens ages 13 – 18. This initiative will give young Newarkers the chance to hear—outside a traditional classroom—how poetry feeds the narratives that propel social justice movements, and to add their voices to the chorus. The program aims to offer them an opportunity to experience, through reading and writing poems of their own, how joy, empathy, and healing can be intrinsically tied to language and poetry.
The judges (selected by NJPAC & Dodge Poetry producers) will score the slam and decide who qualifies based on their performance (2 round poetry slam, with the 6 highest placing poets qualifying).