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Registration for 2024 Symposium
Now Open!
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Registration is now open for the CalPoets' Statewide Symposium featuring Danusha Laméris July 5-7th at the St. Francis Retreat Center in San Juan Bautista. Deep discounts are offered to Active Poet-Teachers.
For 60 years, California Poets in the Schools (CalPoets) has brought poetry creation and performance to over a million students across the state, and provided a vital professional network for thousands of California poets.
This symposium is open to the public and geared towards literary teaching artists (for all audiences), classroom educators, poets, MFA candidates, and more. Content will be engaging for those brand new to teaching the literary arts and to the "old hats" among us. CalPoets' Poet-Teachers will lead workshops sharing their skills and expertise.
Workshops will be geared towards the theme of Flourishing! Celebrating CalPoets' 60th year. How can poetry serve as a tool for wellness, or, flourishing? How do we encourage California youth to unplug, find their unique voices, and thrive? How can we best take care of ourselves in order to ensure our future resilience and sustainability? We will learn from experts in our midst and pool our best practices for a weekend of professional development, networking, community-building, poetry readings, and some good old-fashioned fun.
Click for more information and to register.
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Tune in to the Poetry Out Loud
National Finals May 1-2 |
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| Join poetry enthusiasts across the nation on May 1-2, 2024 to find out who will recite their way to becoming the 2024 Poetry Out Loud National Champion and winning $20,000! Both days are free and open to the public and available through a one-time-only webcast at arts.gov. More details at arts.gov/Poetry-Out-Loud. |
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| CalPoets' Events & Trainings |
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| Active Poet-Teacher Spotlight |
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We’ve all been bystanders. But how many of us have intervened? Margo Perin, Sonoma County poet, Poet-Teacher and Area Coordinator, ponders why on KQED Perspectives. Click here to listen. |
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All are invited to join spoken word poet, Marin Poet-Teacher Claire Blotter, for a launch/reading/walk celebrating her new collection, EXPANDING.WATER.WAYS., and the gift of water on Sunday, May 19th at 1:30pm. She’ll read and perform poems along the spectacular San Francisco Bay Trail Waterway behind Strawberry Point School in Mill Valley, ending up at Jane’s Sweet Things Bakery in Cove Shopping Center for cookies and treats. Click for more information.text! |
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| Youth Poet Spotlight |
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| Calls for Submissions |
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This opportunity to submit youth poetry is open to Active Poet-Teachers only. Click to submit.text! |
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Take a look at the latest publishing opportunities currently available to writers from the many literary magazines and presses that are members of CLMP. Before submitting your work, be sure to check the publisher’s website for any updates.text! |
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photo-credit-Mark-Tabay
Our California A joint project of California Poet Laureate Lee Herrick and the California Arts Council. They invite all Californians to write a poem about their city, town, or state, exploring what they love about it, what joy they find in it, what they would change about it, or what they hope for, and then submit for publication. Click here to submit. |
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Jung Journal: Culture & Psyche Call for Poems by Children. Click here to learn more. |
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California Poets in the Schools is a proud member of LitNet. LitNet is a coalition of literary organizations from across the United States that works to promote the importance of the literary arts in American culture, build the capacity of the literary field, and broaden funding for the literary arts. Learn more here. |
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