Sapling Poet Tree
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Sapling Poet Tree
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Funded 2015-2017
Sapling Poet Tree is a spoken word organization for marginalized youth in Edmonton. It seeks to enrich, problematize, and revist perspectives on youth poverty and on the nature of the limitations
that people labeled as “poor” experience, while challenging the
estimation that the youth’s problem are not systemic. Sapling Poet
Tree mentors young poets in a manner that is driven by grass roots
approaches to vocal empowerment, literary proficiency, and self
recognition. Sapling Poet Tree creates artifacts evidential of the real existence, progress, struggles and realization of youth, all working toward the radical disruption of value systems, economic systems and justice systems that would cast these young people, and all of us at various junctures of our intersectionality, as inhuman.
