Name: California Poets in the Schools Comes to Lit Crawl Sebastopol
Start: 2025-05-17T15:30:00-0700
End: 2025-05-17T16:30:00-0700

Lit Crawl Sebastopol is a project of SebArts and The Litquake Foundation. San Francisco’s Litquake literary festival runs October 9-25, 2025, with affiliated Lit Crawls across the United States and around the world.

Saturday May 17, 2025 3:30pm - 4:30pm PDT

Silk Moon

We're a group of poet-teachers with California Poets in the Schools (aka CalPoets) who want to break out of the classroom and share some of our own original poetry at Lit Crawl Sebastopol. We’ll be joined by the Sonoma County Youth Poet Laureate, and hopefully some other student poets who will read their poetry! California Poets in the Schools develops and empowers a multicultural network of independent Poet-Teachers, who bring the many benefits of poetry to youth throughout the state. (From the mission statement; https://www.californiapoets.org)

Speakers

Brian Martens

Owner, brianrmartens.com

Brian R Martens has always been a poet, his first book Three Raven Gate, (2019) consists of Haiku and other favorite poems. His second manuscript is Merlin’s Wing. His podcast is The Spoken Symbol. He has a Masters in Organization Development. He offers workshops on Myth/Ancient... Read More →

Pamela Michael

Pamela Michael has been teaching poetry and writing for over thirty years. She is the co-founder, with Robert Hass, of the award-winning international youth poetry and art program, River of Words.

Lisa Shulman

Lisa Shulman is a poet, children’s book author, and teacher. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in New Verse News, ONE ART, Poetry Breakfast, Catamaran, Minnow Literary Magazine, California Quarterly, The Best Small Fictions, and a number of other journals and anthologies... Read More →

Margo Perin

Margo Perin’s book publications include Plexiglass; The Opposite of Hollywood; Only the Dead Can Kill: Stories from Jail; and How I Learned to Cook & Other Writings on Complex Mother-Daughter Relationships. Her poetry has been anthologized in numerous anthologies. She is the poet... Read More →

Elizabeth Bennett

Poet-teacher, California Poets in the Schools

Elizabeth Bennett taught high school English for 20 years, and ESL at Sonoma State for 12. She has been published in short story and poetry contests, and in the Redwood Writers 2021 Poetry Anthology, Beyond Distance. The Price of Saffron is her third chapbook, published in 2024. Since... Read More →

Lisa Zheng

Lisa Zheng is the Sonoma County Youth Poet Laureate for 2024-2025.

Chelsea Wills

Chelsea Wills is an artist, writer, and educator based in Northern California. The Home of Milk, her recent chapbook, was released by Bottlecap Press in 2024. Her art has been shown at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Jose Museum of Art, Kala Art Institute, and more. She is currently... Read More →

Saturday May 17, 2025 3:30pm - 4:30pm PDT
Silk Moon 195 N Main St, Sebastopol, CA 95472, USA

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