Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD) and Youth Speaks are teaming up to highlight some of the Bay Area’s most talented youth poets! This year’s Community Voices: Poets Speak series is all about youth voices.  

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This five-week series joins poets and the visual arts for a captivating experience! Eight Bay Area youth poets will share new poems created in response to MoAD’s current exhibition, The New Black Vanguard: Photography between Art and Fashion. Join us in the MoAD galleries to experience creativity at the intersection of visual art and poetry.

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Every Thursday at 5pm from January 12-February 9th the poets will perform original work leading up to the group reading and celebration on Thursday February 9th at 6pm.

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Upcoming Community Voices: Poets Speak Readings

1/26 5-6pm Community Voices: Poets Speak-Zouhair Mussa & Aleja Cobarruviaz

2/2 5-6pm Community Voices: Poets Speak-Christell Victoria Roach & Niambi Walker

2/9 6-8pm Community Voices: Poets Speak-Closing Reception

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Featured Poets

Myra Estrada, 2021 Oakland Youth Poet Laureate. Myra is an African American and Mexican female poet. Myra considers herself an activist and utilizes her political poetry as a way to expand her knowledge and express her beliefs.

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Sahara Frett is an ambitious, creative, and results-focused artist and entrepreneur with a dynamic background that spans multiple states and countries including those in Africa and Asia.  Sahara is a multi-talented woman of color hailing from the Caribbean diaspora.  While trained in the theater, spoken, and instrumental arts, she is also skilled in programming, library sciences, video production, and graphic design.  She has spent almost two decades in performance arts, mastering stage, television and film.

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