Schooled on Poetry

Schooled on Poetry, a collaboration between CAPA, the Thurber House, The Ohio State University, The Poetry Foundation, The Columbus Foundation and poet-educator Peter Kahn is the culminating celebration of a year-long Spoken Word poetry project at Lincoln Park Elementary School, AIMS Middle School, Walnut Ridge High School and the Arts and College Preparatory Academy. At the culminating event on May 3, there will be intra-school group pieces and individual original poems by slam champs from each school. Students will be joined by Columbus poets Hanif Abdurraqib, Steven Waddell and Cynthia Amoah, Nashville-based poet-rapper Chris Byrd, and New York Times Bestselling author Kwame Alexander.

We hope to showcase the power of poetry to the Columbus community in a diverse way so that writers of all ages and backgrounds can see poetry as a meaningful and accessible form of expression.

To learn more about Peter Kahn and the intra-school project, visit https://www.poet-educatorpeterkahn.org/.

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