LYA Poets

<span style="font-weight: bold;">Leeds Young Authors (LYA)</span> is a community project developed with the aim to stimulate love for poetry and literature as a whole amongst the inner-city youth of Leeds. LYA meet weekly at the Host Leeds Media Centre in Chapeltown, where the group was originally started, to study poetry, word power and performance skills. Formed in November 2003 by Khadijah Ibrahiim, LYA have been performing their brand of hard hitting, fast paced poetry not only locally, but as the first non-Americans in the Brave New Voices competition in Los Angeles 04, San Fransisco 05, New York 06, San Jose 07 &amp; Washington DC 08. This year LYA came SECOND IN THE BNV hometown of slam poetry CHICAGO!! We do alot so show some support... our work has extended across the UK, Gambia and the Caribbean...<br><br>R.I.P. DIANE CHENG,<br>GONE BUT NEVER FORGOTTEN.<br><span dir="&quot;ltr&quot;" style="float: right;"></span><span dir="&quot;ltr&quot;" style="float: right;"><br></span>

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