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Cross Currents
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YOUTH POET LAUREATE
2021-2022
YOUTH POET LAUREATE
2022 YPL Commencement
Check out the April 30th, 2022 live streamed event!
Youth Poet Laureate
Hawai'i's 2nd Annual
Kalehua Fung
News Articles
Click images to view each participant's performance
Miya
Peterson
Lyric
Ono
Shea
Noland
Kealoha
Comcowich
Koren
Kano
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Mika
Hiroi
Esther
Chan
Nicole
Dao
Rachel
Waggoner
Finalists
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Makaela
Cooper
Korion
Williams
Vaiva
Peroff
Junior Poets
Instructors/ Mentors
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Ittai Wong
Le Jardin
Academy
Travis Thompson
Youth Speaks Hawai'i
Pacific Tongues
Honorary Guest Performers
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Sara
Tekula
The Merwin Conservancy
Lua
Bowman
Hawai'i's 1st Youth Poet Laureate
Featured Judges
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Michael Cirelli
Executive Director of Urban Word NYC
Meera Dasgupta
2020 United States Youth Poet Laureate
Teresa Siagatonu
Award Winning Poet & Educator