Carlynn Newhouse Poetry

Carlynn Newhouse is an African American poet, activist, emcee, and performer. She is the 2015 & 2017 Youth Speaks Seattle Grand Slam Champion and competed in the Brave New Voices poetry festival in 2015-2017. She placed as a finalist for Brave New Schools in 2017, and as a National Young Arts Finalist in Spoken Word in 2018. Carlynn has performed at well known venues such as Seattle Town Hall, Bumbershoot, the Kennedy Center, and more. Her work has been featured in Crosscut, The Seattle Review of Books, and XQ Super school live. She believes poetry is a form of activism, using it as a tool to bring awareness in hopes of making the world a safer space.