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, 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, poetry and language, and to present their voices in a variety of ways, including public performance, printed anthologies, and here on line. We believe that by inspiring a nation of teens to read, we are leveling the playing field between rich and poor, mainstream and marginalized, bringing previously unheard voices to the front.