Presents

**Deadline to submit to Cæsura 2022 is June 15th for PCSJ members!**

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Cæsura 2022: Reset

The Call: Blinded by fractured light through the broken view of a kaleidoscope that has twisted our senses into a cloud of fever dreams; we reach, strive for a pattern of hope, a tessellation that integrates all our broken parts into a creation of beauty. Together we replant the seeds. We reset our gaze on the intricate and fertile patterns of empathy and love.

The editors will judge from blind lists to create the two unique versions of Cæsura Reset, the print version and the online version.

NEW and UNPUBLISHED poets and artists, every year we recruit, appreciate, and publish your work. Please add the comment “Not yet published” to your cover page.

Everyone may submit up to 3 literary works.
Everyone may submit up to 3 visual works.

Poetry Lounge!

Saturday, June 9th, 1:00pm PST

Hosted by Lesa Medley!
Co-sponsored by Willow Glen Public Library.

Please join us in the Poetry Lounge as we celebrate our amazing poetry community! Bring a poem of your own or someone you admire to share! Email the host at lcmedley016@gmail.com to receive the Zoom link in order to attend! Visit PCSJ's Facebook page for updates!

San Jose Poetry Slam

featuring
Michael Jasso!

Sunday, June 12, 6:30pm PST

Hosted by Scorpiana Xlent!
Co-sponsored by Caravan Lounge.

Come join us for Poetry from the comfort of your own home. Sign ups will be in the zoom room only. There will be no advance sign ups. Poetry only. There will be a two poem limit but you are free to sign up again after your turn, we will keep the list going until we run out of time.

Register through Eventbrite:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/345161947677

Room opens at 6:30 pm (California time).
Sign up list will be open from 6:30 to 7pm.
Slam starts at 7.

Cash prizes for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place!

If you have never been to a Poetry Slam before, a poetry slam is a competition, imagine spoken word poetry as an olympic sport. The rules are simple:1) Poets must use their own poems. 2) poet must use only one poem per round. 3) no musical accompianment. 4)no props. 5) there is a time limit of 3 minutes and 10 seconds. going over that will result in a time penalty.

This is a two round slam, poets with the highest scores will move up to round two.
You can sign up to compete via the chatbox in the zoom room.
If you're not competing, we could use judges.

Michael Jasso (not to be confused for your dad) is a poet, teaching artist and organizer based out of California's Central Valley. He is the founder of The Loud Mouth Poetry Jam, Visalia's premiere slam venue for 8+ years. Since he started competing 11 years ago he's represented his venue at NPS 2014 & 2015, competed as a storm poet at IWPS 2018, and has coached several of Visalia's reps. Much like your dad, he tells cringey jokes, loves grilling, and asks if your oil has been changed as his form of "I love you."

Well-RED

featuring
Cassandra Bousquet, Aileen Cassinetto & Keiki Leni Ward!

Tuesday, June 14, 7:00-9:00pm PST

Co-sponsored by Works/San José art and performance center.
This event is supported in part by Poets & Writers.

Aileen will also share her poetry film BREATHE which features work by Cassandra Bousquet, Chloe Chou, Bellamy Cramer, Ronit Das, Arda Inegol, Samantha Ishikawa, Maya Kornyeyeva, Iris Li, Caroline Lim, Allen Mata, Hanna Docampo Pham, Emma Roginski , Marissa Teng, and Payton Zolck, with additional lines by National Youth Poet Laureate Alexandra Huynh!

Zoom channel opens at 7:00pm. Each participant has 5 minutes.

Join Zoom Meeting
Register in advance for this meeting:
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Cassandra Bousquet is 18 years old. She enjoys knitting, reading, spending time in nature, and participating in theatre and chorus. She has been writing all her life and hopes to be a successful author in the future. Cassandra is a recent graduate of the Youth Climate Ambassador program put on by San Mateo County’s Office of Sustainability, San Mateo County Office of Education, Citizens’ Environmental Council of Burlingame and Peninsula Clean Energy. She is continuing her climate activism through her Instagram @unitedagainstclimatechange.

Aileen Cassinetto is an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow and the Poet Laureate of San Mateo County. Her work has appeared in Poetry magazine, Marsh Hawk Press Review, Fellowship Magazine, and Moria, among others. She received a Special Congressional Recognition in 2021, and was appointed by the Board of Supervisors to serve as Commissioner for the Commission on the Status of Women through 2025. She is a 2022 Metro Film and Arts Foundation grantee.

Keiki Leni Ward is a spoken word poet and former student at Ravenswood Middle School. She writes about her history and heritage, her community, and her hopes as a young woman of color. Her work was featured by the Ravenswood Education Foundation as part of their Giving Tuesday campaign. Her poem, “Mirroring Sea,” about sea level rise and its impact on East Palo Alto, is featured in the San Mateo County Youth Ecopoetry Project.

Third Thursdays!

Thursday, June 16, 7:00-9:00pm PST

Co-sponsored by Willow Glen Public Library.
Hosted by Lesa Medley!

Zoom channel opens at 7:00pm. Each participant has 5 minutes.

Check the Facebook event page for Zoom link or email Lesa Medley at lcmedley016@gmail.com.

Bauchhaar!

Saturday, June 25, 9:30 AM PST/12:30 PM EST/ 10:00 PM (India Time) on Zoom!

Hosted by Anshu Johri & Poppy Charnalia.
Looking forward to your presence! Visit PCSJ's Facebook page for updates.

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Beautiful Black Books

featuring
Judah1!

Poetry Center San José presents Beautiful Black Books featuring David Marcus Oliver aka Judah1 reading and in conversation with host Santa Clara County Poet Laureate Tshaka Campbell!

Saturday, June 25, 11:00am-1:00pm PST

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To understand who Judah1 is you’ve got to know the work and it’ll all fall into Alignment. Judah1 is an accomplished poet and author of two published books of original poetry, Instructions for Alchemy. Ingredients of Ether and Child of the Sun. Man of the Moon available on Amazon. He is the Co-Host and Founder of LionLike MindState Poetry and Art Series at the Pomona Fairplex. He is also Art Director of the African American Advisory Alliance of Pomona. He has been a member of the Los Angeles Slam Team 2005 and 2006. He was Coach and SlamMaster of the Empire MindState Poetry Slam Team of Pomona 2009 and 2010, leading his Team of Poets to 2nd in the Nation. As an entrepreneur, he Owned and Operated the now Legendary Machine Pomona Art Gallery in the Pomona Arts Colony, 2011-2014. For this work, he was awarded a full scholarship to further his education at Pitzer College of the Claremont Colleges. He is an Art Consultant for the Ontario Montclair School District 2012 to present. David Judah 1 has taught poetry at every level of education spanning kindergarten to college and university workshops, even beyond bars and barriers as an Art Instructor for the Prison Education Program, teaching poetry to inmates at Chino Men’s and Women’s Prison, Norco Rehabilation Center for Men and including Camp Glen Rocky Detention Camp for Boys, San Dimas. Marrying his deep love for creation and building, David Oliver also owns MindState Inspections, a Civil Engineering Consulting Company. He is also a Licensed Minister and has officiated 15 weddings and a funeral. David Marcus Oliver/Judah 1 was recently Unanimously Voted to Serve on the Pomona Arts and Culture Commission as a Citizen Advisory Committee Member.
He is…the Inaugural Poet Laureate of Pomona!

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Ig. @judah1 @LionLikeArtCommunity

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1650 Senter Road
San Jose, CA
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Poetry Center San José promotes and supports the literary arts in San José. Over the past four decades, PCSJ has brought hundreds of exceptional writers from around the country to read from their works and, in many cases, to conduct workshops for local writers. PCSJ is a nonprofit organization established in 1978. Its base of operations is in the charming turn-of-the-century Victorian home where the renown poet Edwin Markham once lived, now located in San José History Park. Poetry Center San José is a member supported organization and is funded, in part, by grants from Applied Materials Foundation, the City of San José's Office of Cultural Affairs, Knight Foundation, Poets & Writers, Silicon Valley Community Foundation, SVCREATES, in partnership with the County of Santa Clara and the California Arts Council and generous giving from Anne & Mark's Art Party and Brandenburg Family Foundation.

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