Youth Speaks Teen Poetry Slams from March 2008. Semi-finals were held are the MoMa of San Francisco and the Finals at the SF Opera House in front of 3000 people. HBO is filming a documentary on national teen poets this year, keep an eye out for it. The poets are all teenagers from 13-19 years old and some have just started this as a way to verbalize the world they see. The generation can speak for itself!