Street Poets harnesses the healing power of poetry and music to build community and inspire our next generation to write, rap and dream a new world into being for us all.
Street Poets breaks the cycle of violence in the lives of system-impacted youth and young adults, awakening them to their gifts.
Street Poets builds creative communities, bringing youth, adults and elders of diverse backgrounds into deep transformational relationship.
Street Poets consults and collaborates with other organizations and communities to inspire both individual and systemic change, transforming our culture from one too often driven by fear to one that celebrates healing and the creative process.
We envision a circular society that reflects the balance, diversity and creativity of the natural world, and cultivates the seeds of imagination and compassion in our next generation of change-makers.
Street Poets aims to restore balance to ourselves and the world, by stepping through our fears to embrace the gifts that too often lie dormant beside our deepest wounds. Thus, freeing ourselves from cycles of addictive consumption, violence, despair and destruction.
Our Street Poets embrace the truth that there is an indigenous soul that lives within each of us, that remembers what it feels like to exist in harmony with the earth, and that can see beyond the surface of things. We believe that, buried in our bones, there are ancient solutions to most modern problems. Street Poets’ ultimate mission is to liberate those solutions.