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Welcome to WordSlam - a website that is dedicated to helping to bring the Literary Arts closer to teen and youth hearts! Thank you for visiting us and exploring the many ways that are available for you to express your poetic voice and learn more about the Literary Arts in one place here on the Internet. We look forward to hearing from you in the very near future! Poets Are Rising!

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In the "Celebrating The Poet Within" Initiative that Poetess Kalamu Chaché is curating on social media,
​you can submit an original poem of 24 lines​ or less that is family-friendly to ​her for publishing consideration.
Just send her an email to:  PoetsAreRising@gmail.com 

The WordSlam Youth Poetry Contest

Calendar Events

Founded in January 2021 by Poetess Kalamu Chaché, who has been serving as the East Palo Alto Poet Laureate in California since 1983, the annual WordSlam Youth Poetry Contest is being offered to middle school and high school students who live in East Palo Alto and the Belle Haven community of Menlo Park. WordSlam3 is now open through April 30, 2022 @ 5:00 PM. If you would like to enter one of your original poems of thirty lines or less in the Contest, please click on the WordSlam Contest menu tab above for more information. We look forward to hearing from you before the deadline!

Beyond your school classes in the Literary Arts, there are a lot of other ways in which you can participate to further explore your interests in becoming an emerging Poet. Please check our Calendar Events menu tab as often as you can so that you can know when events are happening and make plans to participate in them or be in attendance.

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