Campers spent an evening in Hoblitt Room, a large room in the Drury sorority house, last night to participate in a 25-year-old tradition at the Leadership Academy: Poetry Night. A house competition also took place before Poetry Night, Poetry Slam.
Poetry Slam is a competitive event in which campers sign up to read a piece of either their own work, or work of a fellow camper, and performs it in a theatrical way. Competitors are scored on several criteria: Emotion, Performance, Enunciation/Audibility, Flow, and Overall Impression, which one member from each house group volunteered to score. Scores on the Poetry Slam impact the house group of each camper that participated in the Slam.
After the Slam, campers formed a large circle around the Hoblitt Room with the lights turned off, aided only by a flashlight and the ceremonial candle passed around to each camper as they read. The poems that campers read could either be written by a famous poet, or their own work, or even song lyrics, that held some meaning to the camper. Some were humorous, others with more of a melancholy tone. Chance concluded the evening with a poem of inspiration to the campers about childhood and growing up. Poetry Night was a very inspirational and powerful DLA tradition that will carry on for many years.
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