The Fresno County Youth Poet Laureate Program is conducted by the Fresno County Superintendent of Schools in partnership with Urban Word, the producer of the National Youth Poet Laureate Program and Movement. This program celebrates youth voices that are committed to artistic excellence, civic engagement and social impact. Supported by the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities, the Academy of American Poets, the Poetry Society of America and numerous other local and national literary organizations our goal is to elevate the role that youth poets play in enriching our cultural lives and impacting change in our communities.