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Michael Jasso is a Spoken Word Artist from Visalia who has worn many hats within the community over the past 15+ years. He has traveled...

As part of the SFUSD city-wide Youth Arts Festival throughout April 2024, approximately eighty 9th grade students’ poetry/visual art...

You’re invited to join spoken word poet, Claire Blotter, for a launch/reading/walk celebrating her new collection, ...

CalPoets and poet-teacher Claire Blotter were awarded an Artist Power Convening Grant to meet and collaborate on lesson plans with the...

Lowell high school ninth grade students’ stunning poetry visual art projects are now being displayed at the San Francisco Asian Art...

There’s a new, hybrid, internacional, bilingual, collective open mic in SoCal called Planeta Poeta hosted by Diosa X and the Colectivo...

Join us in congratulating Frej Barty, Mendocino County's new Youth Poet Laureate! A junior at Mendocino High Schools, Frej is an aspiring...

Mariam Ahmed is a Californian poet. She earned her Bachelor’s degree in English Literature with a minor in Sociology from the University...

Christine Moore (she/her/hers) grew up in rural Northern California surrounded by nature. She holds an MFA from the University of San...

Now that complimentary copies are in the hands of the contributing youth poets, we are very pleased to announce the publication of our...

Watsonville Poet Laureate, Robert Gomez has been given an hour and a half to present poems, songs, and recitations, as a response to Walt...

Johnnierenee Nelson, Poet-Teacher and Area Coordinator for San Diego is elated to share that she's been awarded a Far South/Border North...

Brennan DeFrisco will be a featured reader at the Portland Book Festival this November for his new collection, Honeysuckle & Nightshade....

Milani Pelley recently was awarded the 2023 Bridge AOR Community Foundation grant to bring the literary arts to Longfellow Middle School...

Through a generous grant from Upstate California Creative Corps, Terri Glass has created a series of poems called Plea for Wildlife about...

Alice Pero is now the curator for the Village Poets reading at Bolton Hall in Sunland/Tujunga (LA County.) She is currently booking...

Poet-teacher Karen Lewis created a poem for the Fort Bragg Alleyway Murals Project. Each mural has a QA code that leads to the website...

Our outgoing Mendocino County Youth Poet Laureate Sidney Regelbrugge has released her first collection of poetry: Questions Asked in the...

Please join a 4-week generative eco-poetry workshop on Zoom led by Nancy Lynée Woo, author of I’d Rather Be Lightning. Writers of all...

Purchase at SPD here. "Nancy Lynee Woo's dreadfully charming ecopocalypse I'D RATHER BE LIGHTINING is such a beautiful, jarring, funny,...

Poetry film "strikethrough '21" by Marin Poet-Teacher Maxine Flasher-Düzgüneş was recently published in Issue 09 of Pinky Thinker Press,...

Justin Phillip Reed, winner of the National Book Award for Poetry and the Lambada Award, has selected Kelly Gray’s The Mating Calls of a...

Vincent Trevino Jimenez is a Chicano poet and an emerging scholar. Currently, Vincent is a Northridge student working on his Bachelor's...