California Poets in the Schools

I'm the featured poet at Sacred Grounds Cafe's Virtual Poetry Reading this Wednesday, March 24. Let me know here or via PM if you need the link! Sacred Grounds ...Café: San Francisco's longest running poetry open mic, serving up good food and fine poetry since 1972. Featuring Blake More Wednesday March 24, 20217pm Open mic to follow the reading. Hosted by Dan Brady: http://www.creativeideasforyou.com/emailpage.html Find out more on face Book: https://www.facebook.com/groups/203539673028715/ See more

The arts are civic engagement. Low-income students with high arts participation are more likely to vote in local elections and volunteer. The power of #ArtsEdRebuilds communities. Spread awareness by downloading @Create_CA’s art posters at https://createca.org/posters/!

Support youth voices in poetry! CalPoets is thrilled that Angelina Leaños, our newest board member is to be the next youth poet laureate of Ventura County. Congratulations Angelina! Click the link to register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ventura-county-youth-poet-laur

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Please join California Poets in the Schools for a community open mic at 7pm, Sunday, March 28th featuring Fernando Albert Salinas and Sue Terence. The virtual event is part of a quarterly series of open mic events meant to foster community amongst our network, and to highlight our fantastic poets. Please register by following the link below in order to receive a Zoom link. https://www.californiapoets.org/events/virtual-open-mic-3

I hope you'll join us tomorrow as we hear from four Poet-Teachers who will offer a snapshot of a Zoom poetry lesson, geared towards K-12, that's been working well for them. Register here to receive the Zoom link: https://www.californiapoets.org/ev/a-few-great-zoom-lessons

We made our fundraising goal! Thanks to all who donated and shared the campaign. Click below for our most recent newsletter. https://mailchi.mp/cpits/we-made-our-goal

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Announcing details re: the 2021 Nomadic Press/San Francisco Foundation Literary Awards! 20 writers will receive $5,000 each (a total of $100,000 will be awarded... in 2021) Awards per genre: 10 poets, 8 fiction writers, 2 non fiction writers You must be from the following counties to be considered: Alameda, San Francisco, or Contra Costa Judges: Poetry (3 past/current SF Poet Laureates): Kim Shuck, Tongo Eisen-Martin, Devorah Major Fiction (2): Juli Delgado Lopera, Ingrid Rojas Contreras Non Fiction (1): Roberto Lovato Timeline: February 15March 15: submission period March 15April 15: judges' reading period April 15April 18: final selections made April 19April 30: winners announced There will be a celebratory reading from the winners selected, and we are working on the timing of this. Likely in May/June. A Submittable page will go up next week with submission details per genre and as mentioned above, submissions will open on February 15! More soon!