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'Broken City Poets' is a documentary that chronicles the lives of four high school students who are challenged to use poetry to make sense of their bankrupt, gang-ridden California city. In 2013, The Center for Investigative Reporting and ...See more'Broken City Poets' is a documentary that chronicles the lives of four high school students who are challenged to use poetry to make sense of their bankrupt, gang-ridden California city. In 2013, The Center for Investigative Reporting and Youth Speaks hosted a series of poetry workshops in Stockton. The two unlikely collaborators, a news organization and a youth poetry group, wondered what kinds of stories young people would tell if they wrote about their hometown, using deeply reported facts provided by journalists. Written by Anonymous See less