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Host and sponsor your own Poetry
Slam....
and for very good reasons...
- Universities, Colleges
- High Schools, Secondary
Please see biographical information on Ray, but if
there is one person that you'd want to see host and run a poetry slam,
use this vehicle to bring out the very best in people, it would be a
winner, a champion - someone who knows poetry, poetry slams, and poetry
education, inside and out. That person would be Ray McNiece.
See comments below from students, and
scroll down for photos of Ray and
some winning poetry slam teams on the national level.
LINKS
What is a poetry slam? What are the
rules? How's this work? Etc. Click below...
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The national organization, click
below...
PSI
- Poetry Slam, Inc.
For colleges and universities...
some features, benefits, outcomes, comments...
- Focus school and community-wide attention on your English &
Poetry Program
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Newspaper headline:
POETRY COMES ALIVE AT ______
"I'm so glad Dr. ___________ set this program up.
I'll never forget this experience."
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- Increase student skill & appreciation levels
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"I had a very limited view of poetry
before.
Opened my eyes."
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- Students experience the power and beauty of the spoken word
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"Blew me away. I never
experienced poetry like this."
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- Students build self-esteem through self-expression and the
completion of a process
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"It was so cool to write and learn my own poem and then actually perform it. Awesome."
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- Enhance & jump-start interest in your poetry program efforts
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"...this was really fun.
I've told a lot of people about it, that they should come and try this, even my roomate."
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- Students build skills and their confidence expands
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"I never thought I'd be able to do
that. Never. Get up and perform? Ray made the impossible seem pretty
easy." |
- Students learn improved communication skills
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"I think it's easier to
get up and express myself now
wherever I am." |
- Provides lasting values and learning
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"Best English class I ever had.
I can really use what I learned here." |
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Program
meets core values, and nets a positive impact on students, school,
department, and community
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If you'd like to hear
comments like these from your students and others, take one more step and
contact Ray for the details. |
photos below
(above) Ray McNiece wins on the Boston Slam
Team, '91
(above) The Legendary Boston Championship
Team of '92...
(poets, left to right) Richard Cambridge, Benson Wheeler, Ray McNiece - Captain - &
Danny Solis
(above) Poets Danny Solis,
Ray McNiece, and Ted Vaca
(above) Ray captains the '94 Cleveland
Champs, the Cleveland Slam Team, poets extraordinaire...
(left to right) Daniel Gray-Kontar, Ray McNiece, Tia Dianne Hodge, Kwanza Brewer
FOR MORE INFORMATION on this,
click here > MORE INFO
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