youth speaks

On this edition of Your Call, we're celebrating National Poetry Month by speaking with two young poets and the senior program manager from Youth Speaks, a…

if you’ve ever been to a Youth Speaks poetry slam here in the Bay Area, you know young people have a lot to say.Youth Speaks is an international…

The international youth poetry slam festival Brave New Voices comes to the Bay Area this week, bringing with it workshops, town halls, and poetry slams in…

The international youth poetry slam festival Brave New Voices comes to the Bay Area this week, bringing with it workshops, town halls, and poetry slams in…

The international youth poetry slam festival Brave New Voices comes to the Bay Area this week, bringing with it workshops, town halls, and poetry slams in…

The international youth poetry slam festival Brave New Voices comes to the Bay Area, bringing with it workshops, town halls, and poetry slams in Oakland…

More than twenty years ago, writer and educator James Kass was in graduate school at San Francisco State University. He had a small idea: a writing…

Azariah Cole-Shephard is Oakland's newest Youth Poet Laureate. Azariah doesn’t write too many love poems. She says since we're living in a society so…

On March 28, 2016 City Visions addresses how Bay Area youth are changing the conversation about the Type 2 diabetes epidemic.How have predatory marketing…

Donte Clark stands in the middle of a dimly lit stage. A projected photo of a dilapidated apartment building flickers on the wall behind him. In this…