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"The radiant Kirya Traber." ~San Jose Mercury News.
"Clinton wowed us, Hawken inspired us, but no speaker moved us more than Kirya and her fellow poets from Youth Speaks. Kirya gets the last word here." ~Green Build International Expo 2007.
"She looks very cool. Her hair is cool. Her poem is cool. She teaches us a lot." ~Mission High school Student
Kirya Traber is a nationally awarded spoken word artist. Her work is
raw, bold, honest, and unafraid to challenge, commanding attention
from all sides. In 2004 she became a National Teen Poetry Slam
Champion and has since featured at Robert Redford's Sundance Summit,
the Bay Hip Hop Theatre Festival, the Living Word Festival, San
Francisco's Lit Quake, The Stern Grove Festival, Michelle Tea's RADAR
Reading series, Peace Out: The International Homo Hop Festival, The
Playwright's Foundation In the Rough Series, and in Tiny Little Maps
to Each Other, a collection of five young women poets published by
First Word Press. In the fall of 2007 she took the traditional stage
in the lead role of Bullrusher, the Pulitzer nominated play
written by Eisa Davis. She is currently working as the Program
Manager of residencies at Youth Speaks where she develops
and facilitates spoken word workshops for bay area teens and
is a member of the Brave New Voices College Tour. In April of 2009
is taking to the road with the legendary Sister Spit Tour.
Look for her upcoming solo poetry collection in the Summer of 2009.
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