January 01, 2009
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
ATLANTA, GA
Black on Black Rhyme Atlanta Hosts 1st Middle School Open Mic March 12, 2009
EVERYONE IS TALKING ABOUT THEM, BUT NO ONE IS DOING ANYTHING!
The youth of our nation are faced with a seemingly insurmountable number of challenges and dilemmas on a daily basis. The unrelenting scholastic expectations, domestic responsibilities, and public standards dictated by our society can be hard for any human being to maintain.
However, these obstacles are being faced by teenagers, young people still scratching the surface of discovering themselves, which heightens the difficulty.
These issues are further complicated by the lack of social activities and programs designed specifically to engage adolescents and their interests.
“The Poetry Club” was established to provide our community’s youth with a healthy social outlet and platform to express themselves and promote growth in the areas of: self esteem, written and oral communication, public speaking, networking, social tolerance, and cultural understanding through the art of Spoken Word Poetry.
The show is held once a month in Atlanta, Georgia and showcases young poets from Atlanta’s local middle and high schools. We also seek to have experienced, professional feature poets perform and conduct workshops to help motivate and inspire the participating youth.
“The Poetry Club” is committed to providing an atmosphere that encourages unity and character development, so profanity and vulgarity is not allowed.
Several cities around the nation have started similar programs for their youth and the results have been astounding! We strongly believe that “The Poetry Club” can and will have the same type of impact in our community.
Please support us in our efforts to encourage and strengthen the future leaders of our nation.
Sincerely,
Dorian “Paul D” Rogers
Community Poet/ Middle School Teacher/Founder, Black on Black Rhyme Atlanta
Akinbiyi “Shadow” Sawyerr
President, Co-Founder Black on Black Rhyme, LLC
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Well my name is Yolanda Sykes. I am currently 15 years old. Ive been writing forever. To me when my pen hits that paper my thoughts just flow. Nothing can stop nor ditract me. I write poetry ofcourse, but I also just write just to let out my thoughts instead of keeping my feelings bottled up...whether good or bad. I would realy like to join this club so if you can please email me at jaslyp57@bellsouth.net, or ysykes94@yahoo.com. i will be looking for to hearing from you soon. I would leave a telephone number but im frankly not quite comfortable with leaving my personal information on the web...out in the open
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