Young poets invited to slam their stuff May 5th

Area teens are invited to compete for prizes in a poetry performance contest, Share it Out Loud, at the New Brunswick Free Public Library this Thursday, May 5 at 4 PM.

Twenty-dollar gift cards will be awarded for Best Dramatic Delivery, Most Enthusiastic Effort, and Best Comic Performance.

All readers will get a small prize and participants will be invited to share pizza at the end of the program. To register, call the library at 732-745-5108, ext. 20, or email Camille Thompson, Head of Youth Services, at thompson@lmxac.org.

The program, sponsored by the Global Literacy Project, Inc. and the GOYA project at Rutgers University will feature members of the poetry collective Verbal Mayhem. First, Verbal Mayhem members will perform original poetry and following their performance, the poets and teacher Meryl Ironson will help teens choose and practice poems for the competition, and then teens will be invited to read. Teens can read their original work, or choose a poem provided at the program.

More about the Global Literacy Project, Inc.:

"The Global Literacy Project, Inc. (GLP) is a New Brunswick, New Jersey based nonprofit organization, conceptualized for the purpose of fostering community-based literacy initiatives throughout the world. In a given High Literacy Cluster (HLC), our success will be measured by individuals experiencing a shift of consciousness that dramatically and permanently alters their way of being in the world." Visit the GLP website HERE.

More about the GOYA Project at Rutgers University:

"We challenge ourselves to live up to the perspective that volunteer work is both a practical and an intellectual opportunity to think about other people and to work with and for other people. We encourage ideas that foster intercultural awareness as well as practical projects to assist families and communities."Visit the GOYA Project home page HERE.

More about Verbal Mayhem:

"The Verbal Mayhem Poetry Collective is a student organization, at Rutgers University - New Brunswick, that focuses on the expression of literary and performing arts?particularly that of poetry. For 10 years, Verbal Mayhem has continually recognized the necessity for writers of all styles to come together, and has provided a venue for individuals to do so." Find Verbal Mayhem on Facebook HERE.