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For Teenage Girls by Clementine Von Radics

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For Teenage Girls by Clementine Von Radics

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Mrs. Marroquin
Topic/Thematic Concept: Female Empowerment
Explanation: I love the way she highlights teenage girls throughout history who, despite adversity, pursued their dreams and changed the world. This piece serves as a reminder that there is greatness inside us all. Greatness that is louder than the fear of failure.

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Clementine von Radics - For Teenage Girls

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Mrs. Plunkett

Topic/Thematic Concept: Unrequited (unreturned) love

Explanation: I enjoy how Sarah Kay personifies the toothbrush and bicycle tire. This extended metaphor captures the heartache of unrequited love, but it is also humorous and invites reflection.

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Sabrina Benaim - "Explaining My Depression to My Mother"

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Sabrina Benaim - "Explaining My Depression to My Mother"

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Topic: Dealing with Depression.
Explanation:  I like this poem because she really explains honestly and passionatly about what's going on in her mind. I also like that she is so open and honest and has written this poem for her mother. I give her a lot of credit for standing up to her mom like this because i know its hard to talk to someone about this topic. While I found what she was saying a little scary and felt bad for her, it made me feel thankful  that I dont have that I dont have these emotions.

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Sabrina Benaim - Explaining My Depression to My Mother

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Hannah Dains by "Don't 🤬 Yourself Today"

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Hannah Dains by "Don't 🤬 Yourself Today"

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Simara Rodriguez
Topic/Thematic Concept: 🤬
Explanation: Hannah Dains is coming up with reason why you should stay alive or in her words "... finding the bedsheets instead of the noose..." I think this is great because there are so many people who want to harm themselves or 🤬 themselves or have already done so. (Those who killed themselves may rest in peace).  I love the way she encouraged people with suicidal problems to just have one more day, month, year. People go through it and instead of ignoring it and getting uncomfortable we need to address it and help in any way you can.

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Hannah Dains - "Don't Kill Yourself Today" | All Def Poetry x Da Poetry Lounge | All Def Poetry

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Topic: "Be perfect like me."
Explanation: I loved the way she spoke, she sounded so bold, and confident.
So basically Maia Mayor wants everyone to be themselves, because they are perfect themselves, she wants them to appreciate themselves. She also talks about her life, and talks about how she is nothing, but still appreciates herself, and this topic made her write this poem, and make everyone appreciate themselves.

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I Am NOT Black, You are NOT White by Prince Ea

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I Am NOT Black, You are NOT White by Prince Ea

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Topic/Thematic-Equality for all people
Explanation-I love the way Prince Ea explains the way people were born into the "labels". The way he describes us as cars show a powerful example of how humanity has shaped us. I also enjoy all the different races and genders he included in the video.

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I Am NOT Black, You are NOT White (2025)

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"An Origin Story" by Sarah Kay and Phil Kaye

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"An Origin Story" by Sarah Kay and Phil Kaye

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Radosław Janusz
Topic/Thematic Concept: An experience about two similar people and how they got along with one another.

Explanation: Overall I really enjoy this poem because of how well it was done. These are two people talking about how they met and how similar they are to one another. I loved how Sarah and Phil talked about their personal background. It was really enjoying to hear especially when they got to the similarities part. Their flow and wording was really good. It is important to realize that there is someone like you out there in the world and this poem shows that. This poem also got me interested when they started to talk about what they did in college. But the most enjoyable part of this poem for me was when they talked about how they were being called "cousins" or "siblings" in college. This was really funny and enjoyable. Overall this poem was amazing. I also hope that Sarah and Phil will continue making more of these types of poems together.

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Why am I not Good Enough by Olivia Vella

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Why am I not Good Enough by Olivia Vella

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Angelica Vellore
Topic/Thematic Concept: Insecurities(female), Female empowerment
Explanation: I love the way the poem is relatable. I also like how it exposes the teenage life. How it brings attention to others (adults) what their children are going through.I love how the speaker ends the peom with line of empowerment. I also like this to show that even a 7th grader is capable of writing a great spoken word poem.

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Student's viral poem asks 'Why am I not good enough?'

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Leena C
Topic/Thematic concept: Feelings
Explanation: I like this poem because it makes me think about how we feel and  that we need to tell people about our feelings so we know if someones ok. I feel like this girl hasn't been treated as well as she should so she talks about it.

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Will DeFalco
Topic: He's being honest about himself and letting people know him better, and maybe getting pressure out.
Explanation: I love this poem because it seems as if Rudy Francisco relaxing as it goes on, and he's just letting everybody know who he is. I like how he lets everything out that he may not say when someone asks, "Are you okay?", and he is telling everyone how he truly feels.

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Topic: Rudy Francisco talks about out everytime he is in an exiting or a scary and unknown moment his adrenaline rushes through him, giving him the either most scary or best feeling. He also emphasizes a lot of how being passed or pulled over by a police officer is the most serious adrenaline rush, because of the history of black being dealt with in a more harsh way than others when dealt with officers.

Why I chose this: I chose this because I've seen a lot of videos by Rudy Francisco and all of them show big meaning in my point of view and they way he uses his body language and voice projection, just really sends out the message, I also like how he uses his real life personal experiences in this video.

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Dear Future Generations: Sorry by Prince Ea

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Dear Future Generations: Sorry by Prince Ea

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Daniel Monterroso
Topic: Environmental Awareness
Explanation:  I like this poem because Prince Ea explains why we should be sorry to future generation and that we should take care of the planet. .In this poem Prince Ea tells us that right now we are destroying are  the Earth with all our our pollution. He also explains how he is sorry that humanity right now is destroying the environment for future generations and how that nature is a gift and we are just throwing it away. Prince Ea explains how we can make this go away and with using bicycles and electric cars and being more productive.

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Feminism by Ashia Ajani, Tolu Obiwole, Abby Friesen-Johnson, and Alexis Rain Vigil

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Feminism by Ashia Ajani, Tolu Obiwole, Abby Friesen-Johnson, and Alexis Rain Vigil

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Maya Ferguson
Topic/Thematic Concept: Female Empowerment & Feminism
Explanation: I enjoyed this video because it talks about female empowerment and feminism. I have strong beliefs about this topic as well. I went to the Women's March (in Trenton), and believe that women should have the same rights as men. I also liked this because it includes several different races, so it speaks to everyone. They all talk about their different experiences as black girl, a white girl, and a Spanish (I think) girl.

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2014 - Brave New Voices (Finals) - "Feminism" by Denver Team

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Topic/Thematic Concept: Bullying in schools
Explanation: The poem starts off slow and you can hear the sadness in the poets voice. It's not as if he wrote it because he had to write it, but he wrote it because he had enough passion to share his expierence. He wants to give kids who are going through the same things as he did hope. He tells how difficult it is and how it will all get better because there is a diffrenence of beauty on the outside and beauty on the inside. It gives people who don't go through this a sense of what people can go through. It gives the hurt people hope.

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Islamophobia by Rudy Francisco, Natasha Hooper, and Amen Ra

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Islamophobia by Rudy Francisco, Natasha Hooper, and Amen Ra

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Lionell Jean

Topic/Thematic Concept: Everyone Should be Equal
Explanation: I like this poem because the three speakers deeply talk about how the world treats others differently instead of equally.

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2016 NPS Finals - San Diego - "Islamophobia" by Rudy Francisco, Natasha Hooper, and Amen Ra

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When I was Thirteen by Vicariouslyvirgina

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When I was Thirteen by Vicariouslyvirgina

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Topic/Thematic Concept: Beauty
Explanation: I love the way that she explains how she felt about beauty. She was so honest that she didn't know the true meaning of beauty. She always thought beauty was how you looked on the outside and not the inside when she was 13. I felt what she was actually saying. I saw the meaning behind her words. This poem really made think about how society perse

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Topic/Thematic Concept: Christians and their actions toward babies
Explaination: I like the way that Emeal highlights our mistakes. I also like how he gives us hope for the future. With his actions and the way he says his poem with emotion I can tell that he does believe that we can change. This gave me a new perspective on the way we treat babies. I never thought about anything that has to do with babies this deeply. Emeal made me want to change the world and take action.

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Abortion destroys precious individuals who are made in the image of God. "Choice," a riveting Spoken Word poetry video by Living Waters President, Emeal ("E.Z.") Zwayne, drives this urgent truth home, and holds up the glorious gospel as our only hope and remedy. Please watch it, and share it, for the sake of lives and souls.

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A Message To My Generation ~ Molly Kate Kestner ~ Spoken Word

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A Message To My Generation ~ Molly Kate Kestner ~ Spoken Word

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Topic: People should spend less time caring about themselves and social media and start caring about other people more.
Explanation: She is trying to tell people that they should change the way they think about themselves. She wants people to care about others and care less about social media. I think she does a really good job saying this. She projects her voice and her facial expressions and hand gestures help you understand how she is feeling.

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A Message To My Generation ~ Molly Kate Kestner ~ Spoken Word

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Saffi
Topic/world tragedies
Explanation- I like how he starts of with jokes and starts repeating things to intensify what he's saying. He then ends his poem with a line explaining everything and I didn't fully understand until he said "I'll listen for what's missing--
and I'll put it there"

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Thomas Carpinelli
Topic/Thematic Concept- Who really is trustworthy and your friend
Explanation-  I really like this poem because it opens your eyes and makes you think who really are your friends. As we grow older our social circles may shrink because of "fake" friends will be leaving or you realized they actually aren't your friend.

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EVERYBODY AIN’T YOUR FRIEND | SPOKEN WORD | TRENT SHELTON

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Caleb Wisniewski
Racism
I like this poem because he says how people judge by skin and actions and say that they are one color on the inside but a different color on the outside when we are all humans living in a world a racism.

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Spoken word Poetry | Jonathan Dawit | TEDxYouth@DAA