Shred

Shred
Shred

Shred

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Poet Camara Brown, 17, is a senior at Oak Park and River Forest High School and participated in Louder Than a Bomb for the second time this year.

Her piece Shred is about her mom taking her anger and emotions out on her cooking.

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.