Santa Clara County Poet Laureate Blog

Time 2021-09-16 17:34:44

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by Mighty Mike McGee | October 30, 2018 11:48 am City of San José LITTER-atureProject I am working with the City of San Jose Public Art Program, Environmental Services Department and the Anti-Litter Program to help develop the LITTER-ature Project. Our goal is to put San Jose youth poetry on brand new public litter cans throughout the city. We’ve created a contest to help us select the most pertinent, entertaining and thought-provoking poetry and are now taking submissions for short poetry written by middle school and high school students throughout San José.The contest will be juried by professional poets such as Arlene Biala and yours truly, along community members who will select several poems from all of the submissions. Those winning poems will become permanent artwork that will be affixed to several hundred new public litter cans to be installed throughout San José business districts in 2019. Also, the top 20 submissions will receive a $50 gift card.The submission process is online and very easy, requiring very little information from students. Due to space limitations on the litter cans, we are asking students to submit up to five very short poems like haiku or tanka, for example. They can be very serious, or very, very funny, as long the poem expresses concern, accountability, responsibility or care for the environment and our growing need to put litter in its place.All entries must be submitted by noon on November 15th, 2018. Winners will be announced by December 14th, 2018.As you can see, our deadline is coming up quick, so we just need to get the word out to young poets, whether they live in the city or attend any middle school or high school in San Jose. Students can go to litter-ature.info to read more and submit their poems online. by Mighty Mike McGee | September 22, 2018 3:42 am Ongoing Poetry Events in Santa ClaraCounty Hello, folks!Here are some of the current open mics and poetry events happening in 2018.Second Sundays • San José Poetry Slam • 5:30pmCafe Stritch • 374 S First Street, San JoseSecond Tuesdays • Well-RED Open Mic and Features • 7pmWorks/San José Gallery • 365 S Market Street, San JoséThird Thursdays • Willow Glen Library • 7pm1157 Minnesota Ave, San JoséThursdays • Live Lit Writers Open Mic • 7pmCaffe Frascati • 315 S First Street, San JoséFridays • MACLA Youth Slam Workshops • 4pm–7pmMACLA • 510 S First Street, San José by arlene biala | February 6, 2018 6:28 pm Be ever wonderful . . Stay as you are . . . ~ Earth, Wind Fire Dear friends,It has been a true blessing and honor to serve as your poet laureate for the last two years. Maraming salamat, thank you, for deep support, inspiration, commitment, love, creative medicine and friendship as we continue to lift each other up and rage against all that tries to silence us. Thank you for sharing your voices and encouraging others at the mic, on the page, and on POETree leaves.Thank you for holding space for one another through art, resistance and compassion. I will continue on this journey with you, always.Here s a little gift (video editing credit to our girl Kiana. 13yr olds can do this stuff in their sleep!)And finally: I am HELLAhappy that our new poet laureate for 2018-19 is our amazing friend Mighty Mike McGee!We could not be in better hands

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