100 teenage poets from around the globe will arrive in SF for 4 days of poetry. It's not a community if we're not embracing our young poets.
Weekend passes available.
FREE under 20. After a frustrating episode trying to find a parking space, it's Thursday night, April 20 for the open mike at the packed Zeum Theater at Yerba Buena Gardens for the start of Brave New Voices drawing teenage poetry slam teams from as far as London and Bosnia. Thursday night also featured the worldwide premiere of the documentary video Poetic License which follows teenage poets in the 1999 National Youth Poetry Slam in Albuquerque, New Mexico. SeeKing hosting the open mike at the Zeum Theater. AKA Marc Joseph Bamuthi, SeeKing is a poet, member of the championship 1999 San Francisco poetry slam team, school teacher, director of the Living Word Project and San Francisco Slam Master of the San Francisco Poetry Slam at the Justice League every second Sunday of the month.