Citywide Poets
Now accepting registrations for the 2025/26 school year!
InsideOut’s award-winning after school program provides teens with weekly creative writing workshops, publication, and performance opportunities. In this rigorous and supportive literary community, teens learn their words are powerful and embrace creative expression as a tool for self-development and civic engagement.
Readings & Events
Teens have the opportunity to meet renowned locally and nationally-recognized writers, participate in youth-centered open mics and poetry slams, and even participate in a Poetry Convention!
Performance Troupe
The InsideOut Youth Performance Troupe members are selected annually through a competitive performance and interview process. These teens receive coaching, mentorship, and performance opportunities locally and regionally.
Youth Advisory Board
The Youth Advisory Board provides an opportunity opportunity for teens to grow their leadership capacity and directly influence the Citywide Poets program. These young leaders receive professional and artistic mentorship, host and curate a variety of public events, and provide direct guidance to InsideOut staff, writers, and Board of Directors on their vision for the program.
Citywide Poets Scholarship
Created in 2019 by an anonymous donor who witnessed the impact of InsideOut’s Citywide Poets programming, this life-changing scholarship opportunity for participants covers up to $25,000 per year in tuition, for up to 4 years of full-time undergraduate education.
