Teen Poetry Workshop led by Youth Speaks

Gabriel Cortez and Youth Speaks

The Brower Center - Kinzie Room

This is the space at this year’s festival for teens looking to write and share and connect with other young poets from throughout the Bay. Come through to this generative poetry writing workshop especially for you. Led by the SPOKES youth advisory board from Youth Speaks, you will be guided through a fun series of writing prompts and activities to help you practice putting pen to page and saying something meaningful about the world around you. Do you want to share your work on stage? All participants at this workshop will get first choice preference to sign up to perform at the Youth Poetry Open Mic happening 1:45pm-3:45pm Sunday, May 31st at the Downtown Berkeley BART Plaza Stage. All experience levels are welcome! Just bring your favorite writing utensils and we’ve got the rest. This workshop is only open to teens aged 13-19 years old.

There will not be table space provided in our Writers' Workshop venues, so in addition to bringing paper and a pen, we recommend bringing a book or other hard surface to write on.