Some Rad Photos from Poetry Slam

During an unusually warm Homecoming weekend, I decided to attend a Poetry Slam contest at the Mountain   City Traditional Arts. Starting around 7:30pm, the evening lasted till around 10:30 and featured an array of ages from local poets, residents, and students.

Sophomores Conor Burns and Emily Grove await to go into the Poetry Slam while staring at some displays in the Mountain City Traditional Arts window.

Senior Andrew Wilk pets a dog outside Mountain City while rehearsing his poems for the contest. Wilk went on to win the competition that night and walk home with a $50 prize and a basket of pottery.

Host for the evening and visiting poet, Allan Wolf, holds up a foam Titanic model while giving the analogy that we are all a community aboard the Titanic and we need to mesh together in our diversity as a united community.

Allan Wolf has the audience hold up their arms in a "baby arm" demonstration to illustrate how poets look at the world as if it were the first time seeing it as babies do.

For more information on the Poetry Slam or other folk events that the community is holding, visit www.appindie.org.