Youth Speaks is a Bay Area nonprofit, with satellite workshops around the country. They are providing a safe space for high school students to put their thoughts and emotions on paper and on the stage. Since the founding of Youth Speaks in 1996 the youth poetry movement has spread to many places, including Seattle, New York City and even abroad.
Places to hear the young poets are the Teen Poetry Slam, Brave New Voices and the Bringing the Noise Reading Series. Every event inspires many more teens to join workshops where they learn from each other honest writing and critical thought. You will be amazed at the youth of the speakers on this program, most are just 16, the range of thoughts and feeling that led them to speak out, and the fact that in the school system that we have right now most of them would have never had a chance to be heard at all. http://www.youthspeaks.org
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