Poetic Youth’s third annual Literary Festival will take place on Saturday, April 20, from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at San Diego State University’s Student Union in Templo Mayor room…
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FREE: Workshops with Nationally Acclaimed Poets and Educators Karla Cordero and Gill Sotu, Publication of Festival Writing, Opportunity to Read Your Writing, Book Fair for All Attendees At our first…
Poetry is a gift. Not one you give away forever or keep all for yourself. Poetry is a gift that you share and which grows the more it’s given. This…
On April 19th, four facilitators from San Diego State University visited Monarch School in downtown San Diego to run a poetry workshop for a group of 2nd – 4th graders….
On March 11th, five facilitators from SDSU lead a poetry workshop at Monarch School in downtown San Diego. Monarch School serves youth impacted by homelessness and is the only school…
Poetic Youth returned to Monarch School on October 13th for an after-school poetry workshop extravaganza. We were joined by young poets in grades 3-8 for an afternoon of metaphor-making and…
By Catherine Lewis SDGVA, San Diego Global Vision Academy, is an outstanding writing and service-learning based elementary school that affords its community’s children a well-deserved haven of education. Its Motto,…
by Theodore Bruni The Poetic Youth partnership that I am currently involved in provides weekly poetry workshops to San Diego Global Vision Academy (SDGVA) in the Normal Heights neighborhood of…
By Allison Lynn At the table in front of me, thirteen first-graders are sitting shoulder-to-shoulder along the benches we’ve pushed together against a wall in the cafeteria—though, to be fair,…
By Daniel Gerardi Working as a facilitator for Poetic Youth has been an extremely rewarding experience. I’ve had the privilege to work with the eighth grade class at San Diego…