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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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 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…
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…
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…
by Jen Lagedrost, Poet Volunteer St. Luke’s church is lemon yellow inside with afternoon pouring through the side doors in the classroom on the floor below the chapel where we…