amplifying
youth voices
with spoken word
Curricula and programs that inspire literacy, wellness, and creativity.
get lit player auditions
Audition to join the Get Lit Players, Get Lit's award-winning performance troupe of youth poets ages 13-19.
As a GLP, you’ll get professional training and paid performance opportunities, reaching thousands of peers and community members every year at venues like the White House, Disney’s D23, and FOX TV’s #TVForAll campaign
This year, Get Lit will be sending SIX of our Get Lit Players to the Brave New Voices slam festival in Washington D.C. from July 17-20! Note you interest and availability on the GLP application to be considered for a spot.
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)
FREE SUMMER CAMP FOR 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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OUR WORDS COLLIDE documentary about Get Lit youth poets is now available to rent or own on all cable, satellite and digital platforms including Prime Video and Apple TV!
The Los Angeles Times featured Get Lit in their recent article all about the 'Our Words Collide' documentary and the Classic Slam.
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!
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!
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!
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.
In the second of ABC 7's two-part series on Get Lit, reporter Anabel Munoz interviews founder Diane Luby Lane, student poets, teacher Jeanetta Wolfe and poet Luis Rodriguez about the transformative power of poetry and Uni(verse).