Greater than a 36

Greater than a 36
Poet Delaney Miller of Oak Park and River Forest High School WBEZ
Greater than a 36
Poet Delaney Miller of Oak Park and River Forest High School WBEZ

Greater than a 36

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Poet Delaney Miller, 17, is a junior at Oak Park and River Forest High School and participated in Louder Than a Bomb for the first time this year.

Her piece Greater than a 36 is about how standardized tests count for too much weight within our country.

The largest of its kind in the world, Louder Than A Bomb (LTAB) is Chicago’s rapidly-growing teen poetry festival, taking place February 16 - March 9, 2013, at various venues around Chicago. Aiming to bring teens together across racial, gang, and socio-economic lines, LTAB is a friendly competition that emphasizes self-expression and community via poetry, oral story-telling, and hip-hop spoken word.

Click here to hear all the other 2013 recordings, alongside over 200 Louder Than a Bomb Finalist pieces recorded by Chicago Public Media (WBEZ-Chicago) over the past nine years.