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Martin Steingesser, a poet from Portland, leads a group of Lewiston students in pre-performance exercises at Lewiston Regional Technical Center on Tuesday. Students from Montello Elementary, Farwell Elementary and Lewiston Middle schools are competing against New York City students via teleconference during the Maine Writes poetry slam. Steingesser has been visiting with fifth-graders at Farwell to help them prepare for the competition. Students from Kelly Johnson’s fifth-grade class at Montello went up against the Bronx’s PS 33 Timothy Dwight School on Tuesday morning. LMS students went head to head Tuesday afternoon and Farwell will compete on Thursday. “It’s a fun competition that motivates us to write more poetry,” said Josh Vink, L/A Arts’ director of arts and education.
Arbay Aden, 10, recites her poem “Homelessness” during the Maine Writes poetry slam at Lewiston Regional Technical Center on Tuesday. Aden is a student in Kelly Johnson’s classroom.
Josh Vink, director of arts and education for L/A Arts, watches students from the Bronx recite their poems via teleconference at Lewiston Regional Technical Center on Tuesday. Vink is the teaching artist who worked with a team of fifth-grade poets at Montello Elementary.
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