Kaelin Matthews: “Making Something Beautiful”

  Last month, the arts education program Young Audiences and the Alliance Theatre hosted their annual Teen Slam Poet Competition. The winner was Kaelin Matthews, a junior at Carver High School.

WABE’s Kate Sweeney spoke with him, and created this sound portrait.



Matthews competed against 21 other teenagers from the Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Atlanta. 

That’s Tommy Bottoms you hear about halfway through the piece, performing his poem, “Basic Economics,” on HBO’s Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry.