Poetry Workshop: Street Poets

The Gift & the Wound

Street Poets Inc.

This workshop extends an invitation to explore our stories through story and poetry. This workshop is open to Scripps students only and registration will be required at least one week in advance. Please contact (909) 621-8237 or [email protected] for more information.

Street Poets Inc. is a nonprofit poetry-based peace-making organization dedicated to the creative process as a force for individual and community transformation.

Its mission is  TO INSPIRE at-risk youth in the juvenile detention facilities, schools and streets of Los Angeles County to discover and develop their voices as writers, artists and human beings. TO EMPOWER these young people to use the skills and increased self-awareness engendered through the arts to transcend self-destructive lifestyles. TO CREATE a healing community that unites different racial, ethnic and socioeconomic segments of our city around the transformational power of the creative process.

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