National Youth Poet Laureate program
Celebrating Youth at Intersection of Artistic Excellence & Civic Engagement.
FOUNDED BY
2023 NATIONAL YOUTH POET LAUREATE
Salome AGBAROJI
"Salome Agbaroji's poetry highlights the historical and the hereditary, takes the technical and turns it into the practical--revealing what is seemingly unseen into what is undeniable. Her poems take risks, and train the eye to dare to explore.." –Janice Sapigao
Salome Agbaroji 2023 winner of the annual National Youth Poet Laureate (NYPL) competition––and the second NYPL winner from Los Angeles––will serve as the United States youth literary and civic ambassador.
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Our Program
The National Youth Poet Laureate program works with local youth literary arts organizations across the united states to identify and celebrate exceptional youth poets who use their voice to inspire change.
Our program model supports local literary partners in launching their local youth poet laureate program, elevating these young poet-activists, and creating opportunities and resources to expand and elevate platforms for these youth poet laureates.
This program is supported by the Academy of American Poets, Poetry Society of America, the Library of Congress, the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Parks Service, Cave Canem, and many more.
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