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STREET POETS Inc. is a non-profit poetry-based peace-making organization dedicated to the creative process as a force for individual and community transformation.

  • Good Seed Gardening

    Street Poets’ GOOD SEED ORGANIC GARDENING program was designed to awaken our students to their own true nature by bringing them into active relationship with the earth and the natural

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  • Writing Workshops

    Our writing workshops inspire youth to use the practice of poetry to bear witness to their own lives and the lives of

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  • Poetry in Motion Van

    The Poetry in Motion Van is a mobile performance venue and recording studio conceived to help us deliver poetic

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  • Recording Studio

    Street Poets produces and distributes a CD of spoken- word, hip-hop and song each year to amplify the voices of our

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  • Consulting Services

    Street Poets offers transformational life coaching, as well as corporate and organizational trainings and retreats

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  • Reading Series

    Our quarterly public reading series brings nationally and internationally known published poets and spoken-word artists

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  • Rites of Passage

    Street Poets awakens youth to their own true nature by bringing them out of the city into active relationship with the

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  • Mentoring

    Street Poets takes a gift-centered approach to our mentoring work, recognizing that each young person is born with his

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  • Community Open Mics

    Street Poets is committed to building a community that brings together different racial, ethnic and socio- economic

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  • Performances

    Street Poets performs at schools, youth justice & peace conferences and juvenile detention facilities throughout

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An inspiring reflection of the creative healing spirit of Street Poets Inc. and the community it serves in the heart of Los Angeles, California.

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  • WAKE-UP CALL

    This afternoon, one day after the murders of Dallas police officers Brent Thompson, Patrick Zamarippa, Michael Krol, Michael Smith and Lorne Ahrens, two days after the murder of Philando Castile

  • A Gangster’s Guide to Freedom

    If you are or have been a gang member, the most practical question to ask yourself right now is “What is the current status of my relationship to my gang?”

  • Street Poets Visit Sweden

    For the second year in a row, Street Poets was invited to participate in the annual international Youth Initiative Forum in Jarna, Sweden. SP Teaching Artists Art Quiros and Frank Escamilla, along with youth leader Jaynese
    “Ladybug” Poole,

  • Street Poets on the Apache Rez

    Most importantly perhaps, a poetic dialogue begins — between two communities that share not only deep wounds, but powerful gifts capable of transforming our world into something in which we can all believe. This, in the end, is why we are here.

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True Nature

This book was conceived as a portrait of the creative community that both nurtures and serves, and is nurtured and served by, the non-profit organization Street Poets Inc.. Born from

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