Youth Radio Institute: Jasmine Farmer (American Graduate)
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Series: American Graduate
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The WUNC Summer Youth Radio Institute continues with a story from 19-year-old Jasmine Farmer. She's is a poet and recent high school graduate who's involved with the slam poetry group Sacrificial Poets. Once a month the group hosts an open-mic night in the back room of Chapel Hill Fly Leaf Books. As our Youth Reporter Jasmine Farmer reports -- it's become a place where young people can perform their writing to a welcoming audience.
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The WUNC Summer Youth Radio Institute continues with a story from 19-year-old Jasmine Farmer. She's is a poet and recent high school graduate who's involved with the slam poetry group Sacrificial Poets. Once a month the group hosts an open-mic night in the back room of Chapel Hill Fly Leaf Books. As our Youth Reporter Jasmine Farmer reports -- it's become a place where young people can perform their writing to a welcoming audience.
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Jasmine Farmer: When you go to an Open Mic,
Terrence Foushe: So like
Jasmine Farmer: there are a handful of things you have to learn.
Terrence Foushee: we have one thing that we do in the poetry world...
Jasmine Farmer: One of them is to snap.
Terrence Foushee: we snap, we snap, we snap, we snap.
Jasmine Farmer: At an event like this, you snap when you hear a dope line from a poet. Terrence Foushee is the emcee for tonight, it's his job to break in the crowd and teach them what it's all about.
[cue open mic sound]
Terrence Foushee: Alright alright, so it's a lot of yall that need to be broken in. See we all family in here. We all brothers, sisters, aunties, uncles, nephews, nieces, all of that.....
Jasmine Farmer: At the open mic tonight, there are all different races and types of people. Mostly teenagers and college students. Foushee says the quality of the poetry isn't as i...
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INTRO:The series from the WUNC Summer Youth Radio Institute continues this morning with a story from 19-year-old Jasmine Farmer. She's is a poet and recent high school graduate who's involved with the slam poetry group Sacrificial Poets. Once a month the group hosts an open-mic night in the back room of Chapel Hill Fly Leaf Books. As our Youth Reporter Jasmine Farmer reports -- it's become a place where young people can perform their writing to a welcoming audience.
OUTRO:Jasmine Farmer is 18-years-old. She graduated from Carrboro High School last June. She's now working as a full-time member of the North Carolina Literacy Corps based at the Marion Cheek Jackson Center in the Northside Neighborhood of Chapel Hill. She's also a student at Durham Tech.
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