The new literary arts series Fresh Ink, a collection of events celebrating the written and spoken word, presents the film “Louder Than a Bomb” about four Chicago poetry slam teams at 7:30 p.m. Friday, and a reading by poets and writers at 7:30 p.m. June 30.

Both events are presented in the Hemut Stern Auditorium in the U-M Museum of Art.

“Louder Than a Bomb” tells the story of the poetry teams as they prepare for and compete in the world’s largest youth slam. The film captures their lives and explores the ways writing shapes their world, and vice versa.

While the topics tackled by the high school poets are often personal, what they put into their poems — and what they get out of them — is universal: the defining work of finding one’s voice.

On June 30 the award-winning writers and instructors from the weeklong Volume Summer Institute will present a reading for students attending the institute and for the general public.

The event will feature performance poets Patricia Smith, Roger Bonair-Agard and Kevin Coval; California Best Book Award-winning fiction writer Adam Mansbach; and local award-winning poets and fiction writers Scott Beal and Jeff Kass.

The Fresh Ink events are presented by the Ann Arbor Summer Festival in partnership with the Ann Arbor Book Festival, Ann Arbor District Library, 826michigan, The Neutral Zone, Michigan Radio, U-M Museum of Art, WCBN and other literary-minded partners.