Poets in the Streets visited Texas Middle School Friday as part of Texarkana Regional Arts Center’s ArtsSmart programming.

Little Rock poets Amoja Sumler, performing as The Mo-Man, and Kim Marshall, performing as Krysis, presented poetry and re-visited many of the literary writings and writers tools they presented earlier in the week.

“We have a saying in open mike and slam poetry— ‘respect the mike,’” Marshall told students in Linda Hagemann’s seventh-grade classroom. The students were reading poems they were familiar with.

Hagemann said the visiting poe...

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