After two-weeks of Louder Than A Bomb poetry slam competition, select teams move into the next phase of competition known as the Semi-Finals.  As a day-long event, team compete to see which schools will move to the final round. Tickets are available online at www.youngchicagoauthors.org. 

Louder Than A Bomb (LTAB), is the largest youth poetry slam in the world. Over 1,000 youth from more than 100 Chicago land area schools will come together for one month (feb 15th – mar 15th 2014) to participate in an Olympic style poetry competition, in hopes of being one of the four teams on finals stage.