to educators about how this art form can be useful to them in the classroom a lot of education models assume that teachers and educators are the ones with the knowledge and they are going to give it to the students im more interested in a model that says that students have visions dreams fears and flaws and as an educator i am interested in hearing thesein several indian metros spoken word poetry is finding a growing audience what advice would you give an aspiring poeti actually hosted the first indian youth national poetry slam i would tell them to not be afraid of writing bad poems a lot of people have a myth around creativity which is that youre either born a poet or not if its hard or what people write is bad they think that theyre not creative like anything else poetry is a craft that requires time and work so if you write a bad poem thats not evidence that you should quit only that you should get better at it the best poets also write bad poems