Using the power of literature to change lives.

Founded in 2005 in Los Angeles, Get Lit is LA's leading non-profit presenter of literary performance, education and teen poetry programs. Our organization has started a movement of young people picking up a book and a pen, often for the first time in their lives. At Get Lit we are committed to providing youth with as many opportunities as possible to develop a love of literature and language and to present their voices in a variety of ways, including public performance, printed anthologies, and here on line. At Get Lit we believe in the power of literature to change lives. We believe that by inspiring a nation of teens to read, we are leveling the playing field between rich and poor, mainstream and marginalized, bring previously unheard voices to the front.