Youth Speaks

...because the next generation can speak for itself

Committed to a critical, youth-centered pedagogy, Youth Speaks places young people in control of their intellectual and arti...stic development. We are urgently driven by the belief that literacy is a need, not a want, and that literacy comes in various forms. As we move more deeply into the 21st Century, oral poetry is helping to define the new American Voice. By making the connection between...