The 12th Annual Expressions: Talk Up, Not Down, Poetry Camp will be presenting Hip Hop Poetry Choir on July 14 at the Bowie Center for the Performing Arts. Hosted by the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission, this free event is celebrating its twelfth year.

The Hip Hop Poetry Choir is a culmination of 1 week of mentoring and training of thirty-five county youth by master poets: Neville Adams, Christopher “The Poet Man” Fields, Desire Johnson, Sekeithia Johnson, Karin Wilkinson, Sistah Joy, Janique Muckelvene, and visual artists, Pierre Dennis and Lillian Shaw; giving them the tools to be able to express themselves through poetry and spoken word