Featuring over 900 students from 100 area schools, Louder Than A Bomb is the largest youth poetry slam. Bill Leff learns about this amazing event from Rebecca Hunter and Demetrius Amparan of Young Chicago Authors the organization responsible for the festival.

Samantha Rivera performs poetry during a Louder Than a Bomb event hosted by Young Chicago Authors at Columbia College on Thursday, Mar. 3, 2011. (Brian Cassella/ Chicago Tribune)


1 Comment to “The largest youth poetry festival in the world is here in Chicago”
May 20, 2013 at 10:12 PM
The fans of Samantha cheered up for his great performance as well as his talent of singing is the main impact of audiences.