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The eighth annual Aspen Words Youth Poetry Slam went virtual this spring, capping an expanded poets-in-schools project that ran for more than three months for young people in the Roaring Fork Valley.
“Poets are often at the forefront of revolution,” Aspen Words poetry project coordinator Ellie Scott said in her introduction to the live virtual April 29 slam, “illuminating the dark places in ourselves and in our systems.”
That proved true among this year’s bold crop of young local poets who, after a tumultuous year of societal upheaval, underscored how they are the tip of the spear of progressive thought and action here in Colorado and across the U.S.