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Cynthia “Ceez” Keteku, 18, of the Bronx, at the Chelsea headquarters of Urban Word

It was a rainy Friday evening in Chelsea, and nobody wanted to go home, preferring instead to spit poems from the depths of their tortured teenage souls.

 The finals of the New York Knicks Poetry Slam Program were in four days, and a handful of high school poets from around New York City had gathered at the headquarters of Urban Word, a literary arts organization for young people, to cheer Tia-Moné Llopiz as she cried out again in eloquent anguish over her mother’s death.

They needed to hear Cynthia Keteku, known as Ceez, come to grips with her girlfriend’s dumping her for a boy. Read more..

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