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Presents

 


Deadline to submit to Red Wheelbarrow Poetry Prize
 July 31, 2022!



For guidelines and to submit, visit https://redwheelbarrow.submittable.com/submit

Final Judge: Juan Felipe Herrera!

3 prizes: $1,000, $500, $250!
5 finalists published in 2022 Red Wheelbarrow Literary Magazine.
Letterpress broadside of winning poem by Gary Young, Greenhouse Review Press!
Enter 3 poems for $15.

U.S. Poet Laureate from 2015-2017, Juan Felipe Herrera was born in Fowler, California. The son of migrant farmers, he moved often, living in trailers or tents in the San Joaquin Valley, Southern California. Herrera graduated from San Diego High School and attended UCLA, where he became immersed in the Chicano Civil Rights Movement. He received a Masters in Social Anthropology from Stanford University and an MFA from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. His recent books include Every Day We Get More Illegal (City Lights, 2020).
 


Poetry Exchange! 





Sunday, July 17, 2022

Co-sponsored by Los Gatos Public Library
Hosted by Lesa Medley!
1:00 PM (PST)

 To attend, email the host at lcmedley016@gmail.com to receive your Zoom link. 
 


Third Thursdays!

featuring
Renée M. Schell!





Thursday, July 21, 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.
https://zoom.us/j/92765708957?pwd=U1YwTTAzWVpkb0srSnIrSEZNaXF5UT09

Meeting ID: 927 6570 8957
Passcode: poems

Renée M. Schell’s debut collection, Overtones, is available from Tourane Poetry Press. Her poetry appears in New Verse News, Catamaran Literary Reader, Literary Mama, Naugatuck River Review, and other journals. In 2015 she was lead editor for the anthology (AFTER)life: Poems and Stories of the Dead. She holds a Ph.D. from Stanford University and teaches at a Title I elementary school in San José, California. She shares her home with her family, the spirit of Beethoven, and four cats.
 


Beautiful Black Books

featuring
Tongo Eisen-Martin!

 



Poetry Center San José presents Beautiful Black Books featuring Tongo Eisen-Martin reading and in conversation with host Santa Clara County Poet Laureate Tshaka Campbell!

Saturday, July 30, 11:00am-1:00pm PST

Register in advance for this Zoom event:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIqfuqorD0jHtd_CKahobypmgxe6sF0pvs6

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

Originally from San Francisco, Tongo Eisen-Martin is a poet, movement worker, and educator. His latest curriculum on extrajudicial killing of Black people, We Charge Genocide Again, has been used as an educational and organizing tool throughout the country. His book titled, Someone's Dead Already was nominated for a California Bookstore Award. His book Heaven Is All Goodbyes was published by the City Lights Pocket Poets series, was shortlisted for the Griffins Poetry Prize and won a California Book Award and an American Book Award. His latest book Blood On The Fog was released this fall in the City Lights Pocket Poets series and named one of the New York Times poetry books of the year. In 2020, he co-founded Black Freighter Press to publish revolutionary works. He is San Francisco’s eighth poet laureate.

 


Poets @ Play Workshop!




Sunday, August 14, 2022, 1:30-4:30pm
Edwin Markham House
1650 Senter Road, San Jose, 95112


Hosted by Dennis Noren!


This in-person event will be outside in front of Markham House.

Admission is free. Free parking is on Phelan Ave in front of the entrance to History Park.

 
Poetry Center San José
1650 Senter Road
San Jose, CA
info@pcsj.org
www.pcsj.org
 
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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