Dallas Youth Poets is a non-profit organization in Dallas that seeks to provide inner-city youth poets with a safe space to meet, write, and speak their truths. The program is facilitated by award-winning teachers, poets, and mentors: Princess McDowell, Terry Odis & Rage Almighty. Initiated in Spring of 2012, Dallas Youth Poets was designed with the goal of teaching youth poets that their voices are their power and with their voices they can right the wrongs of the world one poem at a time.
Students who actively participate in the program throughout the year become eligible to compete in the Dallas Youth Poets area wide competition, where the highest scoring poets form the current year’s Dallas Youth Poets team, that will go on to represent Dallas at the Brave New Voices Youth Poetry Festival.
Dallas Youth Poets
