Youth Speaks is a Bay Area nonprofit, with satellite workshops around the country, providing a safe space for high school students to put their thoughts and emotions down on paper and on the stage. This book captures a few of their brave and talented students as they express themselves in spoken word poetry both in print and on CD. There is some inspirational work here. All proceeds from this book will go to the programs of Youth Speaks.
Buy My Words Consume Me -- An Anthology of Youth Speaks Poets by Editors of McSweeney's from Australia's Online Independent Bookstore, BooksDirect.