The University Board Mainstage Committee has teamed up with poet, Jasmine Mans, to present another poetry slam session.

The poetry slam will be at 7 p.m. Wednesday in the Martin Luther King Jr. Union.

In 2012, she was named one of Glamor Magazine’s Top 10 college women for her powerful messages through her poetry performances.

David Groves, a senior business management major, and the main stage coordinator for the UB, said he discovered Mans on YouTube and has been a fan of her since high school.

“It’s a real honor to have her come to Eastern,” Groves said.

Mans attacks issues in today’s world and she does not hold back, he added.

Groves said people who listen to Mans’ poems will gain a different view on issues in today’s world, and it will have an effect on them, individually.

“She reaches out to people in a different way,” He said.

Mans has several poems that have gotten a lot of attention in the media and from the Internet.

These poems include “Dear Ex-Lover,” where Mans reminisces about moments from her past relationship, as well as a message to her future daughter.

In “Dear First Lady,” she celebrates the leap of having an African-American couple in the White House. In this poem, she discusses her four-year-old cousin looking up to First Lady Michelle Obama.

Her other poems include, “You Gone Get This Work” and “I Know You Didn’t Mean to Kill Him.”

She has been featured on HBO’s “Brave New Voices,” BET, and billboard.com.

Mans is popularly known for her poem, “The Mis-education of a Barbie Doll.” Mans poem received more than 400,000 views on YouTube.

“The Mis-education of a Barbie Doll” targets and criticizes muscian Nicki Minaj’s, “Barbie doll” image and the objectification of womanhood.

Groves said audience members would experience something they would not at any other poetry slam performance.

“You can take away something unlike any other,” he said.

Groves said his main goal is for the students to view poetry in a different light.

Mans can be found on YouTube under the username, “The Strivers Row.”

Members from Delta Sigma Theta sorority, NAACP, Eastern’s “Brave New Voices” winner Tiarra “Mello” Webb and others will also be performing and the poetry performance Wednesday.

Stacey Catterson can be reached at 581-2812 or [email protected].