This book is a collection of poems by young voices from the Bay Area and Beyond pushing us to think deeply about our COVID-clad world and the structural violences impacting our communities even before the pandemic hit.
At the release party, you can catch poems by our phenomenal contributors including feature sets by the incredible poets, Nate Marshall and Sarah Kay.
Nate Marshall is an award-winning writer, rapper, educator, and editor from the South Side of Chicago. He is the author and editor of numerous works including FINNA, Wild Hundreds, The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop, and the audio drama Bruh Rabbit & The Fantastic Telling of Remington Ellis Esq. He is an assistant professor of English at Colorado College. He has bars.
Sarah Kay is a writer, performer, and educator from New York City. She is the author of four books of poetry and has shared her poems in cornfields in Iowa, an orthodontist office in Nepal, a viking ship on a fjord in Norway, a church in New Zealand, a nightclub in Singapore, the Royal Danish Theater in Denmark, a public square in Estonia, a Broadway Stage in New York City, in the back rooms of dive-bars, middle school gymnasiums, and once on top of someone's dining room table
The event will be live-streamed on the Youth Speaks Youtube Channel so tune in!
This book is a collection of poems by young voices from the Bay Area and Beyond pushing us to think deeply about our COVID-clad world and the structural violences impacting our communities even before the pandemic hit.
At the release party, you can catch poems by our phenomenal contributors including feature sets by the incredible poets, Nate Marshall and Sarah Kay.
Nate Marshall is an award-winning writer, rapper, educator, and editor from the South Side of Chicago. He is the author and editor of numerous works including FINNA, Wild Hundreds, The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop, and the audio drama Bruh Rabbit & The Fantastic Telling of Remington Ellis Esq. He is an assistant professor of English at Colorado College. He has bars.
Sarah Kay is a writer, performer, and educator from New York City. She is the author of four books of poetry and has shared her poems in cornfields in Iowa, an orthodontist office in Nepal, a viking ship on a fjord in Norway, a church in New Zealand, a nightclub in Singapore, the Royal Danish Theater in Denmark, a public square in Estonia, a Broadway Stage in New York City, in the back rooms of dive-bars, middle school gymnasiums, and once on top of someone's dining room table
The event will be live-streamed on the Youth Speaks Youtube Channel so tune in!
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