Slam Ready: What Teen Poets Laureate of New Hampshire Are Up To

Teen poets laureate of New Hampshire (top row, from left): Hannah Rubin of Phillips Exeter Academy, Miriam Alex Deepa of Nashua, and Daniel Zhang of Phillips Exeter Academy, (bottom row, from left) Veronika Sokol of Monadnock Regional High School, Grace Frink of Whitefield and Lauren Bentley-Melle of Amherst. (COURTESY PHOTOS)

By Terry Farish, InDepthNH.org

In a piercingly quick brainstorm on Zoom, the team of teen poets laureate of New Hampshire, and their mentor Jimmy Pappas of the Poetry Society of New Hampshire planned the first events of their laureateship: their inaugural reading and open mic on Zoom, Oct. 12 at 7 p.m., a call for submissions to their journal, Good Poetry Zine, and a possible slam in Whitefield.

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