You Keep Going Back to Him

By PRESENTED AS PART OF LOUDER THAN A BOMB
Poet Antwon Funches of Simeon’s Writers Never Die
Poet Antwon Funches of Simeon's Writers Never Die WBEZ/file
Poet Antwon Funches of Simeon’s Writers Never Die
Poet Antwon Funches of Simeon's Writers Never Die WBEZ/file

You Keep Going Back to Him

By PRESENTED AS PART OF LOUDER THAN A BOMB
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(WBEZ/file) Poet Antwon Funches of Simeon's Writers Never Die

Poet Antwon Funches, 15, is a freshman at Simeon Career Academy and participated in Louder Than a Bomb for the first time this year. His piece “You Keep Going Back to Him” has been called a favorite of the 2013 collection. Teenage love is such a complicated thing…

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.