You catch that Sunday Chronicle profile of Noah St. John, the 15-year-old Berkeley High sophomore who has been competing in poetry slams and has read on NPR's Snap Judgment?
Raised in the Shakespearean theater, with a novelist and a rhetoric expert as parents, you could say Noah was predestined for slam poetry princedom...He is uninhibited onstage, telling stories about growing up with two moms, life lessons he learned through the martial art of capoeira or his crush on an elementary-school teacher..."No subject matter is ever off-limits," Noah said.
Here he is in the first round of the 2011 Youth Speaks Teen Poetry Slam, poeticizin' about the Brazilian martial art capoeria. Watch him do a flip in the middle of the piece.
Virtual high five to Berkeleyside for posting the first video yesterday.