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Showing posts with label Cupertino Poet Laureate. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cupertino Poet Laureate. Show all posts
Sunday, November 1, 2015
Tuesday, July 7, 2015
Silicon Valley STEAM Festival
CPitS and Cupertino Poet Laureate will host a poetry creation station in San Jose this Saturday, July 11 at the Silicon Valley STEAM Festival. Free and open to the public. Plenty of creative car and aircraft displays, and of course, creative poetry play. All ages welcome!
Come join us for poetry to read and write, poetry about airplanes, a chance to glimpse "old-timey" writing technology -- chalk boards! typewriters! -- as well as to chat with real poets and make your own poems!!
AIRPLANES! WARBIRDS! HELICOPTERS!
Up to 100 Exhibitors with awesomely fun Hands On Stuff to Do
Live Music!
Gourmet Food!
FREE ADMISSION, FREE PARKING!
Much MUCH more!
Come join us for poetry to read and write, poetry about airplanes, a chance to glimpse "old-timey" writing technology -- chalk boards! typewriters! -- as well as to chat with real poets and make your own poems!!
Welcome to Silicon Valley S.T.E.A.M. Festival
CARS CARS CARS! Hundreds of vintage/classic/hotrods/exotic cars - sponsored by Hot San Jose Nights and The Car Guy Channel!
CARS CARS CARS! Hundreds of vintage/classic/hotrods/exotic cars - sponsored by Hot San Jose Nights and The Car Guy Channel!
AIRPLANES! WARBIRDS! HELICOPTERS!
Up to 100 Exhibitors with awesomely fun Hands On Stuff to Do
Live Music!
Gourmet Food!
FREE ADMISSION, FREE PARKING!
Much MUCH more!
- San Jose Reid Hillview Airport
- 2500 Cunningham Ave, San Jose,CA (near Eastridge Mall, across from Lake Cunningham Park).
- About 200+ exhibitors are expected to join us
- TONS OF FUN at the biggest, most fun hands-on science, arts, do-it-yourself, FREE festival in Northern California.
Santa Clara County Parks for Life Challenge -- Read Poetry in the Parks!
Parks for Life Challenge is a social media game sponsored by the Santa Clara County Parks.
Erica Goss and I (both CPitS teachers) are playing as team "Poets in the Parks" -- check out our adventures at these recent parks!
You can join a team and play along, or just go sit in a park and read poetry. What a great way to spend some time with your family and friends this summer.
Check out this page on the Cupertino Poet Laureate website for suggested poems!
Erica Goss and I (both CPitS teachers) are playing as team "Poets in the Parks" -- check out our adventures at these recent parks!
- Tree hugging at Vasona Lake Park
- Frolicking and bird watching at Vasona Lake Park
You can join a team and play along, or just go sit in a park and read poetry. What a great way to spend some time with your family and friends this summer.
Check out this page on the Cupertino Poet Laureate website for suggested poems!
Monday, March 10, 2014
Silicon Valley Reads Poetry Contest
As part of the county-wide Silicon Valley Reads events, the Cupertino Library is sponsoring its first ever poetry contest. The contest is open in the adult, high school and middle school categories. Read about the entry criteria and how to submit your entries on the Cupertino Poet Laureate website or the Cupertino Library Foundation website.
The deadline to enter is Monday, March 17, so act fast!
The deadline to enter is Monday, March 17, so act fast!
Monday, September 30, 2013
That's Madame Laureate!
This summer, in a fit of loose-mindedness, I applied for the two-year honorary position of Cupertino Poet Laureate. They picked me! It's rather alarming to toot one's own horn, but any horn-tooting for poetry is always worthwhile. I will have many unofficial and official tasks. Right now I'm planning my events for the next two years and deciding on poems to read at my "inauguration" -- actually "just" an official welcome reception to be held in November. Watch this space for more information about that.
If you're interested in learning more about the position, you can read the city's press release here. And, you can see the actual video of the city council interrogating me about my plans, and hear me read a poem, here. I also include the poem, for those who like to see poetry on a poetry blog.
Birthday With Horses
How do the horses know
where to stand
so the bay shimmers behind them exactly
and Mt. Diablo rises above the watery basin
precisely centered like a waiting wedding cake?
where to stand
so the bay shimmers behind them exactly
and Mt. Diablo rises above the watery basin
precisely centered like a waiting wedding cake?
Cresting Page Mill Road, 10 a.m.,
I come this way every day.
I come this way every day.
How do they know, dozens of horses,
where to stand – the sky
widest there.
They are all the colors
of Santa Clara Valley in September.
where to stand – the sky
widest there.
They are all the colors
of Santa Clara Valley in September.
For your birthday, I notice them
and tell you.
You have lived here all your life
and you know, too,
where to stand.
and tell you.
You have lived here all your life
and you know, too,
where to stand.
Hello, love.
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I am very grateful to the City of Cupertino, The Cupertino Library Commission, The Friends of the Cupertino Library, and the Cupertino Library Foundation for this opportunity.
I am also grateful to walk in the great comfortable footsteps of David Denny, Cupertino's first poet laureate, who is also a great comfortable friend. You can buy his first book of poems on Amazon.com.
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