Photo: Eddie “E3” Young
Edward G Young III is an award-winning voiceover artist, poet, and two-time TEDx speaker that originally hails from Gary, Indiana. Although he just began performing slam poetry this year, he first ventured into the craft of putting pen to page at an early age. In 2021, Edward was a feature poet for Wednesday Night Poetry (America’s longest running weekly open mic) on multiple occasions and, so far this year, he has been featured at several poetry events throughout Bangkok, Thailand and is the current champion of the Bangkok Poetry Slam competition.
His style is narrative and personal, yet also relatable. Slam poetry is an art form he has fallen in love with due to its raw vulnerability and ability to transcend barriers by creating dialogues between individuals from all walks of life.