Pamene sukulu ikuyamba kugwa, zingakhale zothandiza kuwonjezera mapulani atsopano a maphunziro ku zida zanu.  Khalani nafe pa Msonkhano Wachiwiri Wachiwiri wa CalPoets' Lunchtime Meeting.  Pa Seputembala 14 timva kuchokera kwa Alakatuli-Aphunzitsi atatu omwe adzapereka mawu achidule (mphindi 20) a maphunziro a ndakatulo omwe amagwira ntchito bwino ndi achinyamata a K-12. 

Makamaka, timva kuchokera kwa mamembala a CalPoets 'Network:  Brennan DeFrisco (Area Coordinator, Contra Costa), Tama Brisbane (Area Coordinator, San Joaquin) ndi Terri Glass (Area Coordinator, Marin).

Brennan DeFrisco ndi wolemba ndakatulo, mphunzitsi, mkonzi & kumwa khofi wochokera ku San Francisco Bay Area. Adakhala womaliza wa National Poetry Slam, wosankhidwa ndi Mphotho ya Pushcart, Champion wa 2017 Grand Slam wa Oakland Poetry Slam, & wogwirizira dera la Cal Poets ku Contra Costa County. Iye ndi mlembi wa Mtima Wopanda Zipsera (Nomadic Press) & wakhala ngati mkonzi wa ndakatulo pa mastheads a Lunch Ticket & Meow Meow Pow Pow . Brennan amathandizira zolemba zopanga komanso zoyeserera ngati katswiri wophunzitsa m'masukulu, malo achichepere, ndi mapulogalamu osiyanasiyana ophunzitsa zaluso. Ntchito yake yasindikizidwa mu Mawu Dance , Red Wheelbarrow, Drunk in a Midnight Choir , Collective Unrest , & kwina kulikonse. Ali ndi MFA mu Creative Writing kuchokera ku Antioch University Los Angeles.

Tama L. Brisbane  ndiye Wopambana ndakatulo wa City of Stockton. Tsopano akugwira ntchito yake yachinayi yodziwika bwino, wapereka nthawi zopitilira 200, kuphatikiza pakutsegulira kwa Michael Tubbs, Meya woyamba wakuda mumzindawu. Ntchito yake yoyamba ya Ndakatulo Laureate inali yothandiza kupanga Stockton's 2015 kubwerera ku All-American City ndi mawu omveka bwino, olankhulidwa amphindi 10 ophatikiza mawu khumi ndi awiri pa National Finals ku Denver. Pambuyo pa maonekedwe ake a 2017 monga Mlendo Wolemba ndakatulo ku Martin Luther King, Jr. Center komanso ku Ebenezer Baptist Church ku Atlanta, Martin Luther King III anamuuza kuti, "Mawu anu ndi ofunika."  Iye ndi Executive Director wa With Our Words,  Mphunzitsi wa ndakatulo wachinyamata wazaka 12, komanso Wotsogolera ndakatulo wa California Poets in the Schools, imodzi mwamapulogalamu akuluakulu olembera anthu okhala m'dzikoli. 

"Amayi T" alinso: Wopambana Mphotho ya Susan B. Anthony wa Creative Arts, University of the Pacific Woman of Distinction, Black Women Organised for Political Action Honoree, Wopambana Mphotho ya Stockton Arts Commission Comet, Kazembe wa California Vision 2020, ndi membala wa charter wa Brave New Voices National Network. Amagwira ntchito m'ma board a Tuleburg Press, Flourishing Families Inc., Central Valley Neighborhood Harvest ndi Stocktonia News Group. Kugwira ntchito kwake molimbika m'malo mwa mawu a Stockton ndi Central Valley, makamaka mawu achichepere, adziwika ndi nyumba zonse za Nyumba Yamalamulo yaku California komanso nyumba zonse za United States Congress. 

Terri Glass ndi wolemba ndakatulo, nkhani ndi haiku. Waphunzitsa kwambiri m'dera la Bay ku California Poet in the Schools kwa zaka 30 ndipo adakhala ngati awo  Program Director kuyambira 2008-2011. Iye ndi mlembi wa buku la ndakatulo za chilengedwe, The Song of Inde, chapbook of haiku , Mbalame, Njuchi, Mitengo, Chikondi, Hee Hee kuchokera ku Finishing Line Press, e-book, The Wild Horse of Haiku: Beauty in a Kusintha Fomu , yopezeka pa Amazon, ndi buku la ndakatulo, Kukhala Nyama kuchokera ku Kelsay Books.  Ntchito yake idawonekera mu Young Raven's Literary Review, Fourth River, About Place, California Quarterly ndi ma anthologies ambiri kuphatikiza.  Moto ndi Mvula; Ecopoetry waku California,  ndi  Madalitso Adziko Lapansi .  Iye  ilinso ndi kalozera wamaphunziro omwe amatchedwa  Chinenero cha Mtima Wodzutsidwa  likupezeka patsamba lake, www.terriglass.com .  Akupitiriza kuyang'anira pulogalamu ya Marin ya CALPOETS ndipo amaphunzitsa ku Marin  ndi zigawo za Del Norte.