Check out this rising poet from Raytown, Missouri! Click the link for a video recap
April is National Poetry Month. And all over America the past few weeks teenagers have been performing their poetry in competitive events called “slams.”
In local slams this year, this week’s FOX 4 Reaching 4 Excellence Young Achiever emerged as a powerful wordsmith and presenter, giving voice to his own dreams and concerns and to those of many other urban teenagers.
He is poetry in motion. Performing his own deeply intimate and revealing poetry on the stage of Raytown High School, FOX 4 Reaching 4 Excellence Young Achiever Will Adams defies easy descriptions and stereotypes and expectations.
“People think, ‘Oh, he’s your average black kid, plays basketball, messed around and had a son,’” said Will of the usual view people have of him.
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