Poetry Center San José

Congratulations to Anouk Yeh and Mahder Aklilu! Anouk is our 1st ever Youth Poet Laureate of Santa Clara County! Mahder is our Vice Youth Poet Laureate of Santa Clara County!

Looking to express yourself this weekend? Legacy of Poetry Festival 2021 at San Jose State University, with assistance from PCSJ, is hosting a Performance Poetry Video Competition! You may submit two original poetry videos for a chance at prizes and bragging rights. Are they already on YouTube? Even easier! Just head over to the submission form at http://bit.ly/LOPsubmission and check out the guidelines. We look forward to watching them!

It is a great pleasure and honor to announce that All The Marvelous Stuff is the winner for poetry at the 2020 San Francisco Book Festival! Congratulations Nils Peterson! And congratulations to Patrick Surgalski (artist), Bill Cozzini (editor), and Joe Miller (cover and book design)!

Bauchhaar is now live on YouTube! Visit https://www.youtube.com/c/UC3P5aNclr4c92dsDhel7h6g/featured

hi i’m last minute into promoting these two events i have tomorrow, thurs, 10/22! 6:30-7pm with @euphratmuseumda i’ll be reading an intro poem about communit...y, connection, and resilience. 7-8pm i’ll be reading for the larry itliong day festival with @apisrc.ccc @cccatcalstatela with @writesteady & @jadephoenix_!! see y’all there!

Californians for the Arts requests members of our artistic, creative and cultural community to complete their latest surveys. Economic Impact Survey for artists and cultural workers: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/CFTACovidIndividuals Economic Impact Survey for Creative Organizations & Businesses:... https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/CFTACovidOrgs Ron P. Muriera (Vice President, Board of Directors at Californians for the Arts): "Next year, California will be facing a severe budget deficit. It is integral that we demonstrate to our elected officials and decision makers that our sector continues to be a valuable part of the solution to emerge from this pandemic. We can only tell our story if we have current data." Please take a moment to complete and submit the survey and to share with other arts, creative and cultural members in your networks.

Comrades! For years, readers have asked me to self-publish an anthology of my Metro columns. I am thrilled to announce that in mid-November it will finally happ...en. Hand-picked by yours truly, this will be a collection of greatest hits from 15 years of the Silicon Alleys page, assembled in chronological order in one mammoth volume, available via print-on-demand or ebook. I am not able to set up a pre-order, but after November 16th, you'll be able to buy it via Amazon, Indiebound, Bookshop, or however you prefer to order books. Don't worry, I'll remind you. Oh, I'll definitely remind you. More will be revealed, but at the moment I will say this: Aside from ramming home the value of an alt-weekly newspaper in these dreaded days when fewer people seem to understand these things, I hope the book will inspire others to view their own cities in new, creative, zonked-out ways. That was always the point. This was never about me. It’s about squirming deep into the crevices of this massive place we call home and expanding one’s own awareness. That said, I could not have done this alone, so I got by with a little help from my friends, in particular, Sean George who designed the interior and Kara Brown who designed the cover. Both are geniuses. You’ll love what they did. And special thanks to Dan and all the editors who've put up with me over the years. Too many to list here, but they know who they are. You can read more on my website: http://www.garysingh.info/books/ In the meantime, here’s a teaser, thanks to Cotton Stevenson, Pam Kelly and CreaTV:

Congratulations to the 2020 winners of the Red Wheelbarrow Poetry Prize, judged this year by Dorianne Laux and Joseph Millar! We had 862 entrants and over 2500 poems! First prize is awarded to "Faustian Bargain,' by Earl Hines of Portland, Oregon! Second prize is awarded to Arien Reed of Fresno CA for requiem for a scream, and third prize is awarded to Jim Daniels of Pittsburgh PA for "Looking"! ... Many thanks to our dedicated screeners, Ken Weisner, Red Wheelbarrow Magazine, and De Anza College for making this collaboration possible. Thank you to Gary Young of Greenhouse Review Press for creating a letterpress broadside of the winning poem! And many thanks to everyone who submitted work to this year's contest! The 2020 issue of Red Wheelbarrow Magazine will be featured for Well-RED on Tuesday December 8th via Zoom where you'll be able to hear and read many of these poems, this event co-sponsored by Works/San José, art and performance center! See discussion for the list of semifinalists, biographies of our winners, and for the comments from our judges.

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In the background, the flag of Unity In Diversity designed in San José by Javier Yep. https://www.poetryfoundation.org//poetry-foundation-announ