Minneapolis Freestyle

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Minneapolis High School Students, with the help of a team of educators and poets, were encouraged to write poetry. The poems created by the students are in some cases hard-hitting, and in others, cute.

Poetry allows you to say things you would not express any other way. Today, high school students are writing a lot of poetry. Some of it is influenced by hip hop and rap, or challenges authority in what is being called freestyle poetry. But it is not all angry or challenging. Some students are creating poetry about family life and their friends, seemingly unconnected with pop culture.Minneapolis Freestyle contains selected poems that express the great range of emotions and points of view that collectively represent the student voice.


62 Pieces

Order by: Newest First | Oldest First
A Trip Downtown
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Series: Minneapolis Freestyle
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nice images in this poem about going downtown

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  • Added: Feb 19, 2014
  • Length: 01:43
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I Am From
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Series: Minneapolis Freestyle
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Cristabel Amoah, a Minneapolis High School student, tells about her background. Unlike all the other students, she was born in England.

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  • Added: Feb 19, 2014
  • Length: 01:19
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Who I am
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Series: Minneapolis Freestyle
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Carmen, a Minneapolis middle school student gives a fine accounting of why she is as she is.

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  • Added: Feb 19, 2014
  • Length: 01:14
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I Am From
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Series: Minneapolis Freestyle
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A Minneapolis middle school student tells about the friends and family and crazy stuff that make up her world.

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  • Added: Feb 18, 2014
  • Length: 01:23
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The Ghosts of Time
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Series: Minneapolis Freestyle
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A young Minneapolis poet writes of the ghosts who help you view your past and future.

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  • Added: Feb 18, 2014
  • Length: 01:20
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I Am From
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Series: Minneapolis Freestyle
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With a lot of tasty food metaphors, Glenn, a Minneapolis meddle school student, tells us where he is from.

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  • Added: Feb 18, 2014
  • Length: 02:06
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I am From
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Series: Minneapolis Freestyle
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Gao, a Minneapolis middle school student tells in verse of the world life motivating experiences.

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  • Added: Feb 18, 2014
  • Length: 01:27
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I am From
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Series: Minneapolis Freestyle
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Aviana, a Minneapolis middle school student, tells us what she's made of.

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  • Added: Feb 18, 2014
  • Length: 01:27
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I am From Family, Candy and Loving People
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Series: Minneapolis Freestyle
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A Minneapolis middle school student tells the world the experiences that motivate her life.

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  • Added: Feb 18, 2014
  • Length: 02:59
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The Ghosts of Candy
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Series: Minneapolis Freestyle
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A Minneapolis High School student versifies a fanciful account about the revenge of Hallowe'en candy.

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  • Added: Feb 18, 2014
  • Length: 01:44
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My Friend Waffles
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Series: Minneapolis Freestyle
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All kinds of cute going on as a Minneapolis middle school girl writes a poem about a friend.

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  • Added: Feb 18, 2014
  • Length: 02:45
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Heartbreak
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Series: Minneapolis Freestyle
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young love often means first heartbreak, and that is the subject matter of this poem written by a Minneapolis high school student and read by a pair.

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  • Added: Feb 18, 2014
  • Length: 01:59
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Temptation
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Series: Minneapolis Freestyle
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Dylan and Kristin, Minneapolis high school students collaborate on a poem that explores just what the title suggests: Temptation.

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  • Added: Feb 18, 2014
  • Length: 01:45
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Love Tragedy
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Series: Minneapolis Freestyle
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There are many kinds of love tragedies. Francisco, a Minneapolis high school studen has written this one.

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  • Added: Feb 18, 2014
  • Length: 01:59
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All These Things
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Series: Minneapolis Freestyle
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Dylan's poems to to a young woman who has caught his eye.

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  • Added: Feb 18, 2014
  • Length: 01:58
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Life
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Series: Minneapolis Freestyle
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To Terrence, in his part of the world, you have to either play sports or do something illegal to support your family

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  • Added: Feb 18, 2014
  • Length: 01:58
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Life
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Series: Minneapolis Freestyle
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Shanarea of Menlo Park High School in Minneapolis tell us why she thinks life is hard: there's too much hate in the world.

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  • Added: Feb 18, 2014
  • Length: 01:18
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The Family Matriarch
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Series: Minneapolis Freestyle
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Jessalyn, a student at Menlo Park High School in Minneapolis has a touching reminiscence in verse about her great grandmother, the matriarch of her...

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  • Added: Feb 18, 2014
  • Length: 01:50
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I Am From
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Series: Minneapolis Freestyle
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Danielle, a Minneapolis Menlo Park Academy student tells us what she's all about.

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  • Added: Feb 18, 2014
  • Length: 01:18
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The Appeal of Running Track
From: KBEM
Series: Minneapolis Freestyle
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A lot of mental work and skill the combine to help you win a running race. To this young Minneapolis poet, nothing is more fun.

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  • Added: Feb 18, 2014
  • Length: 01:06
  • Purchases: 1

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