amplifying
youth voices
with spoken word
Curricula and programs that inspire literacy, wellness, and creativity.
"LA arts education group fights falling literacy rates through poetry"
classic slam 2024
finals: APRIL 20, 6-9PM
This two-day event is one of the largest poetry slams in the country!
Join talented young poets from schools throughout California as we come together to perform Classic poems and original Spoken Word Response pieces, live, for a panel of esteemed judges.
Doors open at 5PM for Classic Slam Finals.
ethnic studies curriculum!
Get Lit’s VOICES IN VERSE is one of only 11 Ethnic Studies curricula approved by LAUSD. Get the curricula that teachers love and students are constantly requesting!
- Approved for use in LAUSD
- Spoken Word poetry-based lessons that excite and engage students
- UC-approved, Common Core aligned
- Packed with hundreds of peer-led video lessons and poems by BIPOC artists
- Includes access to our online learning platform Uni(verse)
CALLING ALL CREATIVE teens
Get Lit, in partnership with Anderson .Paak's initiative .Paak House, is bringing young artists (age 12-19) opportunities to collab, learn, and grow with some of the top creative professionals in Los Angeles.
Into poetry, performance, filmmaking, music production, and more? We got you.
GET LIT's year in review
THE LATEST
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Get Lit was featured in a new article from national publication EdSource about our work in literacy education.
Get Lit Founder and CEO Diane Luby Lane appeared on iHeart Radio's KFI Featured Segments to share about the Classic Slam.
Get Lit was announced as a $1 million awardee from MacKenzie Scott's Yield Giving Open Call.
We are thrilled to share the details of the amazing year we had, all thanks to YOU: our community, our donors, and all of our awesome poets, educators, and volunteers.
For Martin Luther King Jr. Day, The Talk featured GLP Marlee Porter and her original Spoken Word poem “A Dream Realized.”
Get Lit Player Marlee Porter's original poem highlighted in Fox TV For All holiday campaign!
Young Hollywood put the spotlight on Get Lit and our annual Gala, along with an interview of Get Lit's founder Diane Luby Lane and info about Get Lit's new Creative Lab!
The Gala was one of the week's biggest Hollywood premieres, parties and openings.
We’re the 2023 Outstanding Nonprofit Organization for this year’s National Philanthropy Day LA Celebration!
Diane Luby Lane traveled to Washington D.C. to accept the Successful Practices Honoree Award from the Library of Congress on behalf of Get Lit.
This year, Ethnic Studies is becoming a graduation requirement for LAUSD – and Get Lit’s Voices in Verse curriculum is leading the charge!
The Poetic Convergence was a beautiful day of writing, workshopping, watching, and performing poetry featuring panels, workshops, and more by renowned poets.
Directed and produced by Jordan W. Barrow and Matt Edwards, “Our Words Collide” highlights teenage Spoken Word poets Tyris Winter, Cassady Lopez, Jason Alvarez, Virginia Villalta, and Amari Turner.
Get Lit was just honored with the Library of Congress Literacy Award for our implementation of successful practices in literacy promotion through the Uni(verse) platform!
Get Lit Founder, Diane Luby Lane, shares a message with the Get Lit community.
Congratulations to former Get Lit Player Sierra Leone Anderson, awarded by the YPL selection committee the title of Youth Poet Laureate of Los Angeles!
Congratulations to the 2023 National Youth Poet Laureate, Salome Agbaroji! We are so proud of her journey in Spoken Word, from her first entry in the Why I Rise competition to performing for the likes of the Golden Globes, the Los Angeles Rams, the Mayor’s office, Vans, and more.