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…
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…
Tonnetta Walcott As a member of Poetic Youth, I am also a facilitator for Hoover High School’s Creative Writing Club. The club works with students between the ages of 13-18…
by Koichi Matsuyama We are Poetic Youth volunteers from San Diego State University and our objective is for the 3rd-4th grade students of Monarch School to have fun with poetry and satisfy…
Heather McCutcheon My experience working with Poetic Youth (PY) has been such a rewarding and positive aspect of my academic studies and has given me such wonderful skills I can…
by Jason Credo I wasn’t sure what to expect when I was told that I would be facilitating poetry for seventh graders. It has been eight years since I’ve been…
Launched recently, Poetry International Community Outreach Programs (PICO) are a series of writing and poetry workshops led by SDSU graduate and undergraduate students, held in collaboration with under-served or under-represented…