Teen Poetry Slam Semi Finals | Youth Speaks

Name: Teen Poetry Slam Semi Finals | Youth Speaks
Start: 2025-03-21T17:30:00-07:00
End: 2025-03-21T20:30:00-07:00
Location: San Francisco Public Library (Koret Auditorium)

Schedule

Fri Mar 21 2025 at 05:30 pm to 08:30 pm

UTC-07:00

Location

San Francisco Public Library (Koret Auditorium) | San Francisco, CA

The top 20 qualifying poets from prelims compete with their best work in a Poetry Slam! The top 10 scoring poets advance to Finals 4/25!
About this Event

Join us for a night of stellar poetry as the top 20 competing poets from Oakland and SF Prelims advance to compete in this year's Teen Poetry Slam Semi Finals. The top 10 scoring poets will advance to finals at Brava theater on April 25th, 2025 and the highest scoring poet of the night will receive a $100 prize! Top scoring poets from finals go on to represent the Bay Area at the Brave New Voices International Youth Poetry Slam Festival in July 2025!

Poetry Slams are an olympic-style competition where poets have 3 minutes and 30 seconds to rock the stage and 5 judges give it a score. The Teen Poetry Slam consists of 3 rounds — preliminary, semi-finals, and finals. The top scoring poets in each preliminary bout advance!