Arielle John is an exceptional poet. She is also one of Arts-in-Action’s Wordsmiths, and currently reading for a degree in Theatre Arts at the City University of New York. After participating as the Wordsmiths’ team captain at the Brave New Voices poetry slam in 2008, as a finalist in the festival’s Speak Green competition in 2009, then again as a young intern in 2010 she was invited by the festival’s organisers to serve as one of their ‘Future Corps’; a programme that mentors BNV’s alumni and young artists as events managers. What can we say, except for, “Go Arielle and do us proud; again!”